About Steven Rose
Steven Peter Russell Rose (4 July 1938 – 9 July 2025) was an English neuroscientist, author and social commentator. He was a professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London. == Early life == Born in London, England on 4 July 1938, he was brought up as an Orthodox Jew. Rose said that he decided to become an atheist when he was eight years old. He went to a direct grant school in northwest London which operated a numerus clausus restricting the numbers of Jewish students. He studied biochemistry at King's College, Cambridge, and neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. == Academic career == Following a Fellowship at New College, Oxford, and a Medical Research Council research post, he was appointed to the professorship of biology at the newly instituted Open University in 1969. At the time he was Britain's youngest full professor and chair of the department. At the Open University he established the Brain Research Group, within which he and his colleagues investigated the biological processes involved in memory formation and treatments for Alzheimer's disease on which he published some 300 research papers and reviews. He wrote several popular science books and regularly wrote for The Guardian newspaper and the London Review of Books.
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