Fergus William Campbell, 30 January 1924 - 3 May 1993

Born in Glasgow and trained in medicine, Fergus Campbell became associated with the Physiological Laboratory in Cambridge in 1953. Rising through the ranks he gained a personal chair in Neurosensory Physiology before retiring in 1991. He concentrated his research efforts, which were aided by his great skill as an experimentalist, on human vision and was most closely identified with the Fourier theory of vision. Fergus Campbell is remembered by his many post-doctoral collaborators from all over the world for his personal kindness and his inordinate fondness for disputatious conversation.