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Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, (born Hammersmith, London, 1 October 1950) is a Britishscientist, writer and broadcaster. She specializes in studying how the human brain works and has done a lot of research into diseases such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease which are common in older people.

She has written several books and appeared frequently on radio and television. She is very good at explaining what she does to the wide public, using words that ordinary people (non-scientists) can understand. In 1994, she gave the series of Christmas lectures on television for young children.

She was born 53 years ago into a Jewish family, in London.

Member of the House of Lords, Baroness Susan Greenfield, is a highly celebrated broadcaster, writer and scientist.

Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE, FRCP (born 1 October ) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords.

Her illustrious journey began at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she initially pursued classics but later shifted her focus to philosophy.

Neuroscientist, writer and broadcaster, Greenfield was the first woman director of the Royal Institution, and is a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College.

Life and work

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Susan Greenfield was born in Hammersmith, West London. Her parents were of Russian and Austrian origin. She studied at the University of Oxford and also got a doctorate degree from the College de France in Paris.

She is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford and fellow of Lincoln College. She is the head of