Professor Robert Hinde, CBE, FRS, FBA

Biologist and social scientist, born 1923

After serving as a pilot in RAF Coastal command during the war, Professor Hinde took a degree in biology at Cambridge and a DPhil at Oxford . He was later awarded a Royal Society research Professorship and worked at Cambridge on animal behaviour and on relationships within human families. He was master of St John’s College , Cambridge from 1989-94, and is now Emeritus Professor in the Subdepartment of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge.

Professor Hinde has also been concerned with the causes of international war and how incidences of war can be reduced. He is Chairperson of the British Pugwash Group, which brings together influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems.

Publications include:

• The institution of war (ed.) (Macmillan, 1991)
• War no more (with the late Sir Joseph Rotblat, Pluto, 2003)
• Education for Peace ( Spokesman Books, 1989)