Robert Horne (virologist)
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Robert W. Horne (21 January 1923 – 13 November 2010) was a British virologist and expert in electron microscopy.[1]
Horne was raised in Montreal and served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.[1][2] He began his scientific career at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where he began working with transmission electron microscopes with Vernon Ellis Cosslett.[1] He received his master's and doctorate from the University of Cambridge.[2] In 1961, Horne moved to what was then the Institute of Animal Physiology (now the Babraham Institute), and in 1968 he moved again to what became the John Innes Centre, directed by Roy Markham. Horne remained there as a department head until retiring in 1982.[1] He continued working after his retirement as an honorary professor at the University of East Anglia.[1][2]
In addition to his scientific interests, Horne was a sailing enthusiast and an artist who focused on marine art.[1]
