John Bates (neurophysiologist)

John Alexander Vincent Bates (1918-1993) was an English neurophysiologist based at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases from 1946 until his retirement.^[1] He became the chief electroencephalographer at the hospital, studying human EEG in relation to voluntary movement. In 1949 he founded the Ratio Club, a dining club of British scientists interested in cybernetics.^[2]

Papers relating to Bates and the Ratio Club are held at the Wellcome Library.^[3]

References

1. P. W. Nathan, John Alexander Vincent Bates Archived 1 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Munk's Roll, Vol. IX, p.32
2. Phil Husbands and Owen Holland, The Ratio Club: A Hub of British Cybernetics, in Husbands, Holland & Wheeler (eds.) The Mechanical Mind in History, MIT Press, 91-148, 2008.
3. Bates, John A. V., and the Ratio Club