Duncan Mitchell is Emeritus Professor of Physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in its Brain Function Research Group, from the directorship of which he retired in 2006. He also is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia, Perth. Before joining the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1975, he was on the scientific staff of the National Institute for Medical Research, London, England, and of the Research Organization of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa (now Minerals Council South Africa). His research started in the field of applied human physiology of deep-level mining, and he has added research in fever physiology and conservation physiology to a lifelong career in thermal physiology. His interest in neurophysiology has led to a parallel research programme in pain pathophysiology. He has lectured in twenty-six countries. He has supervised 30 PhD and 17 Masters students and published more than 290 papers. He was awarded the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship, Africa’s top research award for an individual researcher, in 2010. With his colleagues and students in South Africa, the University of Western Australia, and Gobabeb Research Institute (Namibia), he is actively continuing research in conservation physiology related to climate change.
View profile for Duncan Mitchell in: Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2017). Legends of South African Science. [Online] Available at: DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/assaf.2016/0012
