Andrew Wyllie

Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie FMedSci FRS (24 January 1944 – 26 May 2022) was a Scottish pathologist.

Background Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie was born in Aberdeen on 24 January 1944. In 1972, while working with electron microscopes at the University of Aberdeen he realised the significance of natural cell death. He and his colleagues John Kerr and Alastair Currie called this process apoptosis, from the use of this word in an ancient Greek poem to mean "falling off" (like leaves falling from a tree). Wyllie died after a long illness at his home in Willingham, Cambridgeshire, on 26 May 2022, aged 78. 1994 – Bertner Award, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, University of Texas, USA 1998 – 2011 Professor of Pathology and Head of the Department, University of Cambridge, England, and an Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge 2001 – Scheele Award