Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, where he was Head of the Neurobiology Division from 1992 until 2008.
He was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Metallurgy Cambridge University from 1965–68, and then took a position at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 1968 to 1980.
In 1988 he returned to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,[3] taking also a joint appointment at the Scripps Research Institute.
Unwin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983, and of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987.
His awards include the Rosenstiel Award for Basic Medical Research (1991), the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1996),[4] the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography (1999), and the Royal Society Croonian Lecture and Medal (2000).