Roger Christopher Thomas, FRS (2 June 1939 – 17 December 2024) was a British

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out chemical and ...

and Head of Physiology at the University of Cambridge from 1996 to 2006 having moved from Bristol University where he had been both Head of Physiology and Dean of Medical Sciences. His scientific work encompassed mitochondrial calcium handling, Renshaw cells, electrogenicity of the sodium pump, pH regulation (muscle, nerve and glia), proton channel (with Bob Meech), pH buffering, calcium regulation and calcium buffering with some electrical excitability thrown in. Thomas was elected to the Royal Society in 1989. He died on 17 December 2024, at the age of 85.

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* * 'Thomas, Prof. Roger Christopher', Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010; online edn, Oct 201
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1939 births 2024 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Downing College, Cambridge British physiologists Professors of Physiology (Cambridge) {{UK-scientist-stub