Raymond Noble

Raymond Noble is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and chartered biologist, writing extensively on biological theory and philosophy, and on how organisms sense and engage purposively in their environment, and act as agents in evolutionary change. With his brother Denis, he proposed that living systems creatively harness stochasticity at all levels of organisation, from cell to society, to produce purposeful change. He studied Zoology at Manchester University in the 1970s, and for a PhD in somatosensory neuroscience from Edinburgh University. He held a Rockefeller Senior Research Fellowship at University College London, where he became Deputy Dean of Life Sciences and Graduate Tutor in Women’s Health.