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Thomas Burton Loram KirkwoodCBEFMedSci (6 July 1951,Durban,South Africa) is an English biologist who made his contribution to the biology of ageing by proposing thedisposable soma theory of aging. He is currently a researcher and Associate Dean for Ageing inNewcastle University and he headed the Institute for Ageing and Health in its school of clinical medical sciences. He is the author ofTime of Our Lives: The Science of Human Aging (1999),The End of Age: Why Everything About Aging Is Changing (2001), and co-author ofChance, Development, and Aging (2000, together withCaleb E. Finch). In 2001 he gave the annualReith Lectures.[1]
Kirkwood was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[2]
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