Jonathan Ashmore

Jonathan Felix Ashmore (born 1948) is a British physicist and Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London. Early life and education He is the son of Rosalie Crutchley who played Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities. Ashmore was educated at Westminster School as a Queen's Scholar. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Sussex followed by a PhD in theoretical physics in 1971 supervised by Tom Kibble at Imperial College London where his research investigated quantum field theory. Career and research After a short postdoctoral research fellowship supervised by Abdus Salam at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy he retrained as a physiologist at UCL, gaining a Master of Science degree in 1974 which led to work with Paul Fatt and Gertrude Falk between 1974 and 1977 in the Biophysics Department.