William Bradshaw Amos (born 1945) One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is a British

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, Emeritus Scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC)

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(LMB). He led a team that developed the mesolens, a

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with a giant lens.

Education

Amos was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield and graduated from

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with a

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degree in 1966, and from

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with a

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in 1970.

Career and research

Amos was research assistant from 1966 to 1967, research student from 1967 to 1970, and

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from 1970 to 1974 at

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. He taught at the department of zoology, Cambridge, from 1973 to 1978.

Awards and honours

His awards and honours include: *1994

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of the

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*1995 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics *2002 Progress Medal of the

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*2002 Ernst Abbe Award for Lifetime Achievement of the New York Microscopical Society

References

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