1965: Berridge gains his PhD on nitrogen excretion in African cotton strainers from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 

1960: Michael Berridge  graduates from the University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, in Salisbury with a B.Sc. in Zoology and Chemistry.

October 22nd, 1938: Michael John Berridge is born in Gatooma, a small town in Southern Rhodesia (currently Zimbabwe).