Tim Crow

Tim Crow, a trailblazing psychiatrist and researcher, died on November 10, 2024, at age 86. Crow studied at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine before earning his PhD from the University of Aberdeen. In 1974, after lecturing at the University of Manchester, Crow became head of the division of psychiatry at Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex. In 1981, he was awarded the Lieber Prize for schizophrenia research. A decade later he was a joint winner of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry’s research prize. He was made OBE in 2018. He joined the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford in 1995, becoming Professor of Psychiatry three years later. He was the inaugural Honorary Director of the Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research which opened in 2003 at the Warneford Hospital site in Oxford. Over a distinguished 50-year career, he reshaped the understanding of schizophrenia, linking it to brain structure and the evolution of language. A prolific scholar with over 890 publications, Crow received numerous awards and mentored generations of psychiatric scientists.