Charles Cameron Donald Shute (1917–1999) was an English physician and academic, known for his research on neurotransmitters and the McCollough effect.
[2] His mother left the country, and Charles Shute was fostered by his godmother Kathleen Cross.
[3] Shute attended Stoke House prep school in Seaford, Sussex, and in 1930 won a scholarship to Eton College.
[6] From 1951 he was demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at London Hospital Medical College, and also worked with Angus Bellairs in the research group of James Dixon Boyd.
[7] Moving on from his earlier interests in amphibian ears, Shute worked with the neurobiologist Peter Raymond Lewis (1924–2007) on the ascending reticular activating system.
[2] Shute attributed the fruitful choice of chemical, which led to much further research, to the influence while he was a student of Wilhelm Feldberg.
"[9] When she took a post at Emory University, he went with her, worked on Egyptian mathematics, and spent the rest of his life in the United States, dying in Atlanta, Georgia on 2 January 1999.