Rainer Guillery

Rainer Walter "Ray" Guillery FRS (28 August 1929 – 7 April 2017) was a British physiologist and neuroanatomist. He is best known for his discovery that in Siamese cats with certain genotypes of the albino gene, the wiring of the optic chiasm is disrupted, with less of the nerve-crossing than is normal.

Early life and education Guillery was born in Greifswald, Germany on 28 August 1929. He was then subsequently a professor emeritus of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and, , an honorary emeritus research fellow at the Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit at Oxford.

He died on 7 April 2017 at the age of 87.

Honours He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983, and a Fellow of University College London in 1987. In 1996, he delivered the J. W. Jenkinson Memorial Lectureship.