Patrick Wall. Oil painting by Yolanda Sonnabend, 198-.

Professor of Anatomy and Director, Cerebral Functions Research Group, at University College London, 1967-1990; Emeritus Professor, 1990; first editor of the journal Pain and author of many clinical and scientific studies of pain. "An outspoken anti-authoritarian, Dr. Wall also believed that all medical theories should be put to strenuous, and often antagonistic, debate. Dr. Wall maintained that the best ideas were those that had the greatest number of opponents" (Associated Press obituary, 23 August 2001)