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Born in London, United Kingdom, he was brought up as an Orthodox Jew, Rose says 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. 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 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 has published some 300 research papers and reviews. He has written several popular science books and regularly writes for "The Guardian" newspaper and the "London Review of Books". From 1999 to 2002, he gave public lectures as Professor of Physick (Genetics and Society) with his partner, the feminist sociologist Hilary Rose at Gresham College, London. His work has won him numerous medals and prizes including the Biochemical Society medal for communication in science and the prestigious Edinburgh Medal in 2004. His book "The Making of Memory" won the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize in 1993.
In 2012 the British Neuroscience Association gave him a lifetime award for "Outstanding contributions to neuroscience."
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