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Michael F. Land

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Michael F. Land
FRS
Land in 2013
Born(1942-04-12)12 April 1942
England
Died14 December 2020(2020-12-14)(aged 78)
EducationBirkenhead School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
InstitutionsSussex Centre for Neuroscience
Thesis(1968)

Michael Francis "Mike" LandFRS[1](12 April 1942 – 14 December 2020)[2]was a Britishneurobiologist.He was aprofessorofneurobiologyin the vision laboratory at the Sussex Centre for Neuroscience,University of Sussex,England.[citation needed]

Land's research was on different aspects of animal and human vision. His interests were in theopticsof the eyes of marine animals, including scallops, shrimps and deep-watercrustaceans.He also studied visual behaviour in spiders and insects, particularly during pursuit. This led to an interest ineye movementin animals and later in man.

Land's group was mainly concerned with the role of eye movement in human activities such as driving, music reading and ball games.[3]In 2000, Land and a colleague reported their finding that within 200 milliseconds after a ball leaves acricket bowler'shand, the bestbatsmenwill take their eyes off the ball and look ahead to the point where they have calculated it will bounce[4](see also Land & McLeod (2000) in bibliography).

Other work was on the processing of visual information by theretinasofmosquitoes.

He died on 14 December 2020 at the age of 78.[5]

Education

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The son ofFrank William Land,from 1950 to 1960 he attendedBirkenhead School,adirect grant school,on theWirralinCheshire.From there he went toJesus College, Cambridge,where he studiedzoology,graduating in 1963. A PhD inneurophysiologyatUniversity College London(UCL) followed, completed in 1968.[6]It was at UCL that Land began his research into human and animal vision.

Academic career

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After completing his PhD at UCL, where he had been an assistant lecturer inPhysiology,in 1969 Land became assistant professor of Physiology atUniversity of California, Berkeley.He returned to the UK in 1971, taking up a post as a lecturer in neurobiology at the University of Sussex. Here he was appointed areaderin 1977. After being elected aFellow of the Royal Societyin 1982 he was appointed as a professor in 1984. He was also a seniorvisiting fellowat theAustralian National University,Canberra from 1982 to 1984. In 1994 he received theFrink Medalof theZoological Society of London,and in 1996 theAlconPrize for vision research. Land retired from full-time academic work in 2005 and became anemeritus professorat Sussex.[6]

Bibliography

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  • Land M.F., Tatler B.W. (2009) Looking and Acting: Vision and eye movements in natural behaviour.Oxford University Press,ISBN0-19-857094-5.
  • Land M.F. (2007). Fixation strategies during active behaviour. A brief history. In:Eye movements: a window on mind and brain(eds. RPG van Gompel, M.H. Fischer, W.S. Murray, R.L. Hill) Chapter 4. Oxford:Elsevier,ISBN0-08-044980-8.
  • Lim M.L.M., Land M.F., Li D. (2007). Sex-specific UV and fluorescence signals in jumping spiders.Science315: 481
  • Kuhn G., Land M.F. (2006). There's more to magic than meets the eye!Current Biology16: R950-R951
  • Land M.F., Nilsson D-E. (2006). General purpose and special purpose visual systems. In:Invertebrate vision(eds. D-E. Nilsson, E.J. Warrant) pp 167–210.Cambridge University Press,ISBN0-521-83088-5.
  • Land M.F. (2006). Eye movements and the control of actions in everyday life.Progress in Retinal and Eye Research25: 296-324
  • Land M.F. (2006). Visual optics: the shapes of pupils.Current Biology16: R167-168
  • Land M.F. (2005). Eye-hand coordination: learning a new trick.Current Biology16: R995-956
  • Land M.F. (2005). Q & A.Current Biology15: R280-R281.
  • Land M.F. (2005). The optical structures of animal eyes.Current Biology15: R319-R323.
  • Land MF, Horwood J (2005). Different retina-lamina projections in mosquitoes with fused and open rhabdoms.J. Comp. Physiol A(on line 04.05).
  • Tatler B.W., Gilchrist I.D., Land M.F. (2005). Visual memory for objects in natural scenes: From fixations to object files.Quart. J. Exp. Psych.58A (on line 10/04)
  • Land M.F. (2004). Eyes and vision: in:The Crustacea vol 1.(eds. Forest J., Vaupel Klein J.C. von). pp 257–299. Leiden:Brill Publishers,ISBN90-04-12918-9.
  • Land M.F. (2004). Nocturnal vision: bees in the dark.Current Biology14: R615-616.
  • Land M.F. (2004). The coordination of rotations of the eyes, head and trunk in saccadic turns made in natural situations.Experimental Brain Research159: 151–160.
  • Mathger L.M., Land M.F., Siebeck U.E., Marshall N.J. (2003). Rapid colour change in multilayer reflecting stripes in the paradise whiptail, Pentapodus paradiseus.J. Exp. Biol.206: 3607-3613
  • Land M.F. (2003). Eye movements in daily life. In:The Visual Neurosciences(eds L.M. Chalupa, J.S. Werner) chapter 91. Cambridge MA:MIT Press,ISBN0-262-03308-9.
  • Kleinlogel S., Marshall N.J., Horwood J.M., Land M.F. (2003) Neuroarchitecture of the color and polarization vision system of the stomatopod Haptosquilla.J. Comp. Neurol.467: 326-342
  • Land M.F. (2003) The spatial resolution of the pinhole eyes of giant clams (Tridacna maxima).Proc. R. Soc. B270: 185-188
  • Land M.F., Nilsson D-E. (2001) Animal Eyes.Oxford University Press,ISBN0-19-850968-5.
  • Land M.F., Tatler B.W. (2001) Steering with the head: the visual strategy of a racing driver.Current Biology11: 1215-1220
  • Land M.F., Hayhoe M. (2001) In what ways do eye movements contribute to everyday activities.Vision Research41: 3559-3565
  • Land M.F., McLeod P. (2000) From eye movements to actions: how batsmen hit the ball.Nature Neuroscience3: 1340-1345
  • Land M.F. (2000) On the functions of double eyes in mid-water animals.Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B355: 1147-1150
  • Land M.F., Mennie N., Rusted J. (1999) The roles of vision and eye movements in the control of activities of daily living.Perception28: 1311-1328
  • Land M.F., Gibson, G., Horwood, J. and Zeil, J. (1999) Fundamental differences in the optical structure of the eyes of nocturnal and diurnal mosquitoes.J. Comp. Physiol.185: 91-103.
  • Land M.F. (1999) Motion and vision: why animals move their eyes.J. Comp. Physiol.185: 341-352
  • Dacke M., Nilsson D-E, Warrant E.J., Blest A.D., Land M.F., O'Carroll D.C. (1999) Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders.Nature401: 470–473.
  • Land M.F. (1998) The visual control of steering. In:Vision and Action(eds Harris L.R. & Jenkin K.) 163–180.Cambridge University Press,ISBN0-521-63162-9.

References

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  1. ^Cronin, Thomas; Nilsson, Dan-Eric; Osorio, Daniel (2023)."Michael Francis Land. 12 April 1942—14 December 2020".Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.75.
  2. ^LAND, Prof. Michael Francis,Who's Who 2014,A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  3. ^"Professor Michael F. Land, FRS".University of Sussex.Retrieved18 February2016.
  4. ^"Scientists discover how batsmen hit the fast ones".University of Sussex. 20 November 2000.Retrieved26 January2008.
  5. ^"Tribute to Michael Land".Retrieved2 January2020.
  6. ^ab"Prof Michael Land".University of Sussex.Retrieved18 February2016.
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