Ian Glynn

{{Short description|British biologist (1928–2022)}}

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Ian Michael Glynn FRS{{Cite journal |last1=Lew |first1=Virgilio L. |last2=Karlish |first2=Steven J. D. |date=2023 |title=Ian Michael Glynn. 3 June 1928—7 July 2022 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2023.0011 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=75|pages=149–174 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2023.0011 |doi-access=free }} FRCP (3 June 1928 – 7 July 2022) was a British biologist{{cite book|last1=Hameroff|first1=Stuart R.|last2=Kaszniak|first2=Alfred W.|last3=Chalmers|first3=David John|title=Toward a science of consciousness III: the third Tucson discussions and debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=512I3JZzxEMC&pg=PA345|accessdate=26 September 2011|year=1999|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-58181-3|pages=345–}} and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Glynn was educated at City of London School, then Trinity College, Cambridge and University College London Hospital.

He was Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1986–95, and later professor emeritus. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955 (Vice-Master, 1980–86). He was editor of The Journal of Physiology, 1968—70.

His work on the 'sodium pump'{{cite book|last=Stein|first=Wilfred D.|title=Channels, carriers, and pumps: an introduction to membrane transport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWXwAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=26 September 2011|year=1990|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-665045-7|page=223}} led to his election to the Royal Society{{cite book|last= Royal Society|author-link= Royal Society|title=Year-book of the Royal Society of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=teE8AQAAIAAJ|accessdate=26 September 2011|year=2009|publisher=Harrison and Sons|page=232|isbn= 9780854037155}} and to Honorary Foreign Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Glynn was the author of An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind (2003) and Elegance in Science: The beauty of simplicity (2010).

Glynn died on 7 July 2022, at the age of 94.{{cite news |title=Ian Glynn, physiologist who studied the body's vital 'sodium pump' – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/08/08/ian-glynn-physiologist-who-studied-bodys-vital-sodium-pump/ |access-date=8 August 2022 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=8 August 2022}} He married Jenifer Franklin, daughter of Ellis Arthur Franklin and Muriel Frances Waley; her siblings included Rosalind Franklin, Colin Franklin and Roland Franklin.