Steven Rose

Steven Rose is Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University. A biochemist by training, his research centres on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory formation, although he has also written and worked extensively on issues concerning the social framework and consequences of science. He is the author of many books, including, in Penguin, The Chemistry of Life (first published in 1966, now in its fourth edition), Science and Society (1969, with Hilary Rose), The Conscious Brain (1974), Lifelines (1997) and, with Richard Lewontin and Leon Kamin, Not in Our Genes (1984), and the editor of From Brains to Consciousness? (1998; Penguin, 1999). Steven Rose won the 1993 Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize for The Making of Memory.