| First Name |
David
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| Middle Name |
John
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| Last Name |
Nutt
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| Full Name at Birth |
David John Nutt
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| Alternative Name |
Dr David Nutt, Professor David Nutt, Dr David Nutt DM, Dr David Nutt DM FRCP, Dr David Nutt DM FRCP FRCPsych, Dr David Nutt DM FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci, Professor Dr David Nutt, Dr. Z, David J. Nutt, @ProfDavidNutt [twitter]
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| Birthday |
16th April, 1951
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| Birthplace |
Bristol, England, UK
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| Build |
Large
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| Eye Color |
Green
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| Hair Color |
Salt and Pepper
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| Distinctive Feature |
Yellowing teeth, Moustache, Middle Age Spread, Salt & Pepper hair
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
British
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| High School |
Bristol Grammar School (age 4–18 mixed, independent day school in Bristol, England)
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| University |
[1972] Downing College, Cambridge (Medecine), [1975] Guy's Hospital, London (clinical training)
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| Occupation Text |
Neuropsychopharmacologist & drug researcher, professor at Imperial College London
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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| Claim to Fame |
Ecstasy Controversy in 2007, leading to his desmissal
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| Music Genre (Text) |
Neuropsychopharmacology, Substance Addiction, Sleep and Connected Disorder, Anxiety disorders, Author & Publisher of Science Papers / Books, Drug Use & Relative Harmfulness, Psychology, Psychiatry, Inverse Agonism / Contragonism, Alcohol & Alcoholism, Crack, Heroin, Methamphetamine
(Crystal Meth), Alcosynth
(Alcohol Replacement), Chaperone
(Alcohol Attenuator), MEAI
(Synthetic Chemical), Psychedelics, Depression, O.C.D, Alzheimer's Disease, Drug Policy Reform Activist & 2007 Controversy, Addiction & Associated Disorder, Brain science, Pharmacotherapy, Academia, Medical Science
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| Year(s) Active |
???? > 2009 (Professor of Psychopharmacology : University of Bristol), 2009 > present (The Edmond & Lily Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology : at Imperial College London), 2009 > present (Director : the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London), ???? > ???? (Member : of the Committee on Safety of Medicines), ???? > ???? (President : of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology), 2012 > 2012 (Author : "Drugs Without the Hot Air"), 2014 > 2014 (Awardee : The Transmission Prize for Communicating Science for book "Drugs Without the Hot Air"), 1978 > 1982 (Clinical Scientist : of the Radcliffe Infirmary), 1982 > 1982 (Publishes ground-breaking paper in science journal Nature), 1983 > 1986 (Lecturer : in psychiatry at the University of Oxford), 1986 > 1988 (Fogarty Visiting Scientist : at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Bethesda, MD, just outside Washington, D.C), 1988 > ???? (Director : of the Psychopharmacology Unit at the University of Bristol), ???? > present (Editor : of the Journal of Psychopharmacology), 2007 > 2007 (Publishes a controversial study on the harms of drug use in The Lancet science magazine), 2007 > 2007 (Sacked from his position in the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)), ???? > present (Co-founder : the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs), ???? > present (Newspaper Columnist : on relative harm of drugs), ???? > present (Founder : of drug company 'Alcarelle'), ???? > ???? (Advisor : to the Ministry of Defence), ???? > ???? (Advisor : to the Department of Health), ???? > ???? (Advisor : to the Home Office), ???? > present (Fellow : of the Royal College of Physicians), ???? > present (Fellow : of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), ???? > present (Fellow : of the Academy of Medical Sciences), ???? > present
(Visiting Professorship : in Australia), ???? > present
(Visiting Professorship : in New Zealand), ???? > present
(Visiting Professorship : in Netherlands), ???? > ???? (President : of the British Association of Psychopharmacology), 2013 > 2013 (Awardee : The John Maddox Prize for promoting sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, whilst facing difficulty or hostility in doing so), ???? > ???? (President : of the British Neuroscience Association), ???? > present (President : The European Brain Council)
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| Record Label |
UIT Press (book publisher), Nature (science magazine), The Lancet (research publisher), Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (science journal), Alcarelle (drug company), Journal of Psychopharmacology (research publisher), Oxford University Press (book publisher), Birkhäuser (book publisher), Informa Healthcare (book publisher), Martin Dunitz (book publisher), J. Wiley (book publisher), Science Press (book publisher), Blackwell Science (book publisher), Academic Press (book publisher), Wiley-Liss (book publisher), Bailliere Tindall (book publisher), Taylor & Francis (book publisher), Journal Clin Psychiatry (research publisher), Br J Psychiatry (research publisher), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (research publisher), PNAS (research publisher)
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| Official Websites |
www.linkedin.com/in/professor-david-nutt-82498025/, twitter.com/ProfDavidNutt, http://drugscience.org.uk
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| Favorite People |
Cécile Durlach MD MSc
(ex-colleague), Les King
(co-author & colleague), Lawrence Phillips
(co-author & colleague), Amanda Feilding
(colleague), Abraham Weizman
(co-author), Stryjer Rafael
(co-author), Roni Shiloh
(co-author), Adam Doble
(co-author), Ian L. Martin
(co-author), Mike Briley
(co-author), Wallace B. Mendelson
(co-author), Richard G. Lister
(co-author), Martin Sarter
(co-author), Barry J. Everitt
(co-author), Trevor W. Robbins
(co-author), Noeline Latt
(co-author), Katherine Conigrave
(co-author), Jane Marshall
(co-author), John Saunders
(co-author), Mustafa al'Absi
(co-author), George F. Koob
(co-author), Gerald V. Stimson
(co-author), Martin Ince
(co-author), Andrew Jackson
(co-author), James C. Ballenger
(co-author), Eric J.L. Griez
(co-author), Carlo Faravelli
(co-author), Joseph Zohar
(co-author), Spilios Argyropoulos
(co-author), Adrian Feeney
(co-author), Dan J. Stein
(co-author), Karl Rickels
(co-author), Sean Hood
(co-author), Sam Forshall
(co-author), Sidney H. Kennedy
(co-author), Raymond W. Lam
(co-author), Michael E. Thase
(co-author), Caroline Bell
(co-author), John Potokar
(co-author), Eric J. L. Griez
(co-author), Christine Masterson
(co-author), Clare Short
(co-author), James C. Ballenger
(co-author), Jean Pierre Lépine
(co-author), Murray B. Stein
(co-author), Sue Wilson
(co-author), Jaime M. Monti
(co-author), S. R. Pandi-Perumal
(co-author), Barry L. Jacobs
(co-author)
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| Favorite Places |
The Beckley Foundation
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David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. Until 2009, he was a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit. Since then he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Division of Brain Sciences there. Nutt was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. His book Drugs Without the Hot Air (UIT press) won the Transmission Prize for Communicating Science in 2014.
