Graeme Mitchison

Graeme Mitchison (26 August 1944 - 13 April 2018) was an English mathematician, scientist, musician, physicist author with wide interests.

Career and Contributions
Mitchison had a long association with the University of Cambridge. He contributed to mathematics, molecular biology, and quantum computation.

One of Mitchison's notable contributions to biology was his work with Nobel laureate Francis Crick, where they presented a theory on REM sleep and neural networks. They hypothesized that dreaming allowed the brain to 'unlearn' certain unnecessary or irrelevant information.

In addition to his scientific accomplishments, Mitchison was also a talented pianist and writer.

Graeme Mitchison died of aggressive brain cancer on 13 April 2018, at the age of 73.