Richard Graham Michael Morris, CBE FRS FRSE (born 27 June 1948),[1] is a British neuroscientist.
[1] Morris, together with Tim Bliss (Francis Crick Institute) and Graham Collingridge (University of Bristol) were named as winners of the 2016 Brain Prize for their discoveries about the way synaptic connections in the hippocampus are strengthened by stimulation.
The process, known as long-term potentiation (LTP), forms the basis of the ability to learn and to remember.
[10] Morris received his BA in natural science from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and D.Phil.
He was a lecturer at the University of St Andrews from 1977 to 1986 where he developed the Morris water navigation task.