Ian Gibson, former radical who became a Labour MP after a distinguished academic career investigating cancer – obituary
In Parliament Gibson was a respected voice on science, urging more research into organophosphates and insisting Gulf War Syndrome was real
Ian Gibson, 2008
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Ian Gibson, who has died aged 82, was a geneticist who gave up the leadership of a cancer research team at the University of East Anglia (UEA) at the age of 58 when elected Labour MP for Norwich North.
A Scot who began his political life on the extreme Left, Gibson from 1997 to 2009 was a listened-to scientific voice in the Commons, chairing the Science and Technology Select Committee and the all-party group on cancer.
Ian Gibson, former radical who became a Labour MP after a distinguished academic career investigating cancer – obituary
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