Those We Have Sadly Lost

Dr Iain Morley (1973–2021)

The College is saddened to announce the death of Dr Iain Morley, who died of cancer in February at the age of 46. He was a Research Fellow at Darwin from 2005–2008, during which period he co-organised the 2008 Darwin Lecture Series "Serendipity". Dr Morley specialised in Palaeolithic archaeology and evolutionary origins of music, ritual, and religious behaviour in humans. He was the author of The Prehistory of Music, and regularly spoke on the radio and contributed to television programmes. During his career, Iain excavated in Britain, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Libya, Italy, and Greece. After his time at Darwin he moved to Oxford, where he held positions at Keble College, St Hugh's College, and at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.

Professor Celia Milstein (1928–2020)

Celia Milstein was a great friend of the College and wife of the late César Milstein a Fellow of Darwin. Celia was born in 1928 in Argentina. She and César came to Britain in the late 1950s and worked together on early aspects of antibody diversity. Celia actively supported LMB students and scientists who received a Milstein Fund Studentship or Fellowship, named in honour of her husband, which enabled young scientists from South America to undertake research at the LMB. Celia was a Principal Scientific Officer at ARC Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham and had been an active member of the Cambridge academic and social scenes for many decades. Her life is described in ‘Ahead of the Curve,’ a book about women at the LMB.

Dr Ronald Nedderman (1935–2021)

Ron Nedderman was a founding Fellow of Darwin College, appointed on 1st September 1964 along with eleven other distinguished academics. Ron read for his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Science at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1953-56, going on to a long career at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University, retiring in 2000. Ron resigned as a Darwin Fellow in 1980 and in 1981 took up a Fellowship at Trinity College, which he held until his death. The Cambridge community will sadly miss him.