{{Short description|British biochemist (1941–2023)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Michael Derek Waterfield''' {{postnominals|FRS}} (14 May 1941 – 11 May 2023) was a British biochemist and cancer biologist.<ref name="RS">{{cite web | title=Michael Waterfield | website=Royal Society | date=19 September 2015 | url=https://royalsociety.org/people/michael-waterfield-12493/ | access-date=24 March 2019}}</ref>
==Biography== Michael Derek Waterfield was born on 14 May 1941. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1991, and awarded its Buchanan Medal in 2002 "for his exceptional skill in protein biochemistry which have {{small|''[sic]''}} transformed our understanding of signal transduction, and the subversion of cellular signalling pathways in cancer".<ref name="RS"/> Waterfield died on 11 May 2023, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite web |title=Waterfield, Prof. Michael Derek |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38969 |website=WHO WAS WHO 2023 |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Waterfield, 1941–2023 |url=https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/julian-downward/lab-news/2023-05-19_mike-waterfield-1941-2023 |website=The Francis Crick Institute |access-date=27 October 2023 |date=19 May 2023}}</ref>
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