Tom Blundell

Born in Brighton in 1942, Blundell was educated at Steyning Grammar School. He was the first in his family to attend university, winning an Open Scholarship to the University of Oxford. He earned a First Class degree in Natural Sciences in 1964, then moved to research in the Department of Chemical Crystallography, first with Herbert Marcus Powell[citation needed] FRS for his Doctor of Philosophy degree[6] and later working on insulin with Dorothy Hodgkin.[citation needed] He was a Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow.