Anton Lang January 18, 1913 June 24, 1996 was a Russian born American biologist and a plant physiologist . ref name NYT http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F50C11FF3A591B7B93C2AA1782D85F428585F9&scp 3&sq 22Dr. 20Anton 20Lang 22&st cse SCIENCE NOTES Housework Really Light Work Flowers Made to Bloom HOUSEWORK FLOWERS NITROGLYCERINE PIPELINES,September 30, 1956 ref ref name NAP http www.nap.edu readingroom.php?book biomems&page alang.html National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs Anton Lang By Hans Kende and Jan A. D. Zeevaart ref ref name MSU http www.prl.msu.edu PRL 20History LangAwardLecturers.pdf Michigan State The Anton Lang Memorial Awards and seminar ref Lang was notable, among other things, for a discovery of a new method of forcing a bloom in flowers. ref name NYT Michigan State University established a memorial award in Lang s name The Anton Lang Memorial Award. ref name MSU Lang was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , ref name NAP a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , ref name NAP the founding director of the Plant Research Laboratory at the Michigan State University , ref name MSU the managing editor of Planta , ref name MSU president of the Society for Developmental Biology , ref name NAP and president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists . ref name NAP Among notable awards Lang received the Stephen Hales Award ref name NAP and the Charles Barnes Life Membership Award of the American Society of Plant Physiologists . ref name NAP References reflist Persondata NAME Lang, Anton ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1913 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1996 PLACE OF DEATH Category 1913 births Category 1996 deaths Category American biologists Category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences biologist stub ... more details
Dr. Robert Chambers 1881 1957 was an American biologist, inventor of instruments to dissect living cells. ref name NYT http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F20A11FC345D1B7A93C6AB178CD85F438585F9&scp 2&sq pioneering 20biologist 20dies&st cse New York Times DR. CHAMBERS, 75, BIOLOGIST, IS DEAD Pioneer in Micrurgy Was Inventor of Instruments to Dissect Living Cells July 24, 1957 ref ref name JS http www.jstor.org pss 3882473 JSTOR American Zoologist, Vol 19 Irene P. Goldring ref ref name SI http siarchives.si.edu collections siris arc 290702?back 2Fcollections 2Fsearch 3Fquery 3D 2522Marine 2Bbiology 2522 26page 3D2 26perpage 3D10 26sort 3Drelevancy 26view 3Dlist Smithsonian Institution Archives left to right Robert Chambers 1881 1957 ref ref name IB http icb.oxfordjournals.org content 19 4 1271.extract Integrative and comparative Biology Robert Chambers 1881 1957 ref Chambers was president of the American Society of Zoologists , ref name NYT president of Harvey Society, ref name NYT and president of the Union Of American Biological Sciences. ref name NYT He was also chief of Laboratory of Experimental Cell Research at the Marine Biological Laboratory . ref name NYT Chambers received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich , Germany . ref name NYT References reflist Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1881 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1957 PLACE OF DEATH Category 1881 births Category 1957 deaths Category American biologists ... more details
Bill Ballantine is a marine biology marine biologist from New Zealand. He was born in Leicester, England in 1937. He was awarded an MA from Downing College, University of Cambridge and a PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1996, for his work on marine conservation and with the country s Marine Reserve Act . ref name goldman cite web url http www.goldmanprize.org node 82 title Islands & Island Nations 1996. Bill Ballantine. New Zealand. Marine Conservation publisher Goldman Environmental Prize accessdate 9 January 2011 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ballantine, Bill ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1937 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ballantine, Bill Category 1937 births Category Living people Category New Zealand biologists Category Marine biologists Category New Zealand environmentalists NewZealand bio stub ... more details
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About the biologist working on diabetes the biologist working in the field of ecological design John Todd biologist Infobox scientist name John Todd image caption birth date birth place death date death place residence Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 20px UK citizenship Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 20px United Kingdom British nationality ethnicity field Human Genetics work institutions University of Cambridge br Stanford University br University of Oxford br Wellcome Trust alma mater Edinburgh University doctoral advisor Professor David Ellar doctoral students known for author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced Professor Hugh McDevitt Hugh McDevitt prizes David Rumbough Award for Scientific Excellence religion footnotes signature John Andrew Todd FMedSci Fellow of the Royal Society FRS is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge and director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation JDRF Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory where he works in collaboration with David Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis of Diabetes mellitus type 1 type 1 Diabetes mellitus diabetes . ref cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi health 6279521.stm work BBC News title Defence cell genetics unscrambled date 22 January 2007 ref ref http royalsociety.org New Fellows 09 Steel Wood e ref He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009. ref cite web url http royalsociety.org about us fellowship fellows title Fellows publisher Royal Society accessdate 28 October 2010 ref External links http www gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk todd JDRF WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory http www.cambridgebioresource.org.uk Cambridge BioResource http www.cimr.cam.ac.uk investigators todd index.html Profile at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Todd, John A. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT ... more details
Min Chen is a biologist and associate professor at the School of Biological Science in The University of Sydney . Her research is primarily concerned with elucidating the molecular and biochemical mechanism of the energy storing reactions in photosynthetic organisms, especially the function of novel photopigments in oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. In October 2011, A Prof Chen was awarded the Prime Minister s Prizes for Science Science Minister s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year , ref http www.innovation.gov.au Science InspiringAustralia PrimeMinistersPrizesforScience Recipients 2011PrizeRecipents Pages 2011ScienceMinistersPrizeforLifeScientistoftheYear.aspx 2011 Science Minister s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year ref for her role in discovering a new form of chlorophyll, called chlorophyll f . Her research found that chlorophyll f has an absorption maximum at 706nm in vitro , which suggests that oxygenic photosynthesis can be extended even further into the infrared region, which may open up associated bioenergy applications. The function of Chlorophyll f in photosynthetic reactions is uncertain and the ecological distribution of chlorophyll f remains unknown. ref Chen M, Schliep M, Willows R, Cai Z L, Neilan BA, Scheer H, http dx.doi.org 10.1126 science.1191127 A red shifted chlorophyll , Science 329 , 1318 1319 2010 published online 19 August 2010. ref References references Further reading Schliep M, Crossett B, Willows RD, Chen M, http dx.doi.org 10.1074 jbc.M110.146753 18O labelling of chlorophyll d in acaryochloris marina reveal chlorophyll a and molecular oxygen are precursors , J. Bio. Chem. 285 , 28450 28456 2010 . Chen M, Floetenmeyer M and Bibby TS, http dx.doi.org 10.1016 j.febslet.2009.07.012 Supramolecular organization of phycobiliproteins in the chlorophyll ... Biologist DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Min, Chen Category Living people biologist stub ... more details
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About the American biologist the American photographer Nancy Lee Andrews Nancy C. Andrews born November 29, 1958 is an American biologist noted for her research on iron homeostasis . Andrews is currently Dean education Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine . ref name Duke 2007 Duke University, http www.dukemednews.org news article.php?id 10108 Harvard Physician Scientist Named Dean of Duke University School of Medicine , August 27, 2007 ref Biography Andrews grew up in Syracuse, New York . ref name Duke 2007 She earned a B.S. and Master of Science M.S. from Yale University . She began her graduate studies with Joan Steitz at Yale University , studying molecular biophysics and biochemistry , before transferring to work with David Baltimore , earning an M.D. Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. 1985 . ref name Duke 2007 She completed her postdoctoral work at Children s Hospital Boston . Andrews then joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1991, assuming an endowed chair in 2003, a position at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute , and a position as Dean for Basic Sciences and Graduate Studies at Harvard Medical School . In 2007, Andrews left to take a position as the first female Dean of Medicine at Duke University . ref name Duke 2007 ref name WSJ 2007 http online.wsj.com article SB118826679306410575.html?mod googlenews wsj Duke Taps First Woman To Lead Medical School , Wall Street Journal , Aug. 28, 2007. ref In this position, she is the only woman heading any of the top ten medical schools in the U.S. ref name Duke 2007 ref name NPR 2007 http www.npr.org templates story story.php?storyId 14130086&ft 1&f 1012 Andrews Makes ... , Mar. 31, 2005. ref Personal life She is married to fellow biologist Bernard Mathey Prevot. She ... . NAME Andrews, Nancy ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American physician and biologist ... DEFAULTSORT Andrews, Nancy biologist Category 1958 births Category Living people Category American ... more details
Steven A. Frank born 1957 is a professor of biology at the University of California, Irvine . His areas of expertise are evolutionary genetics , Parasitism host parasite interaction s and social evolution . He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987. Frank systematically provides copies of his scientific paper s online, where they can be viewed by anyone with an internet connection in the spirit of the Open access publishing open access movement in scientific publishing . Frank was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, and received prizes from the Society for the Study of Evolution in 1988 and the American Society of Naturalists in 1986. Bibliography Foundations of Social Evolution . Princeton University Press , 1998. Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease . Princeton University Press, 2002. Dynamics of Cancer Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution . Princeton University Press, 2007. External links http ecoevo.bio.uci.edu Faculty Frank Frank.html University website http stevefrank.org Personal website http www.nature.com hdy journal v82 n3 full 6885351a.html Review of Foundations of Social Evolution , Heredity journal Heredity , March 1999. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Frank, Steve ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1957 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Frank, Steve Category Living people Category 1957 births Category University of Michigan alumni Category University of California, Irvine faculty Category Evolutionary biologists US biologist stub ... more details
Jeff Harvey born 1957 in Toronto , Canada is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions at the http www.nioo.knaw.nl Netherlands Institute of Ecology , and formerly an associate editor of Nature journal Nature . Harvey specializes in research concerning Intra interspecific variation in plant quality and its effects on herbivores, parasitoids and hyperparasitoids linking above and below ground multitrophic interactions via plant defense. ref name personal page http www.nioo.knaw.nl ppages jharvey Personal Page of Jeffrey Harvey PhD at The Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO KNAW ref Life history, foraging and developmental strategies in hyperparasitoids. ref name personal page Spatial and temporal effects on multitrophic interactions. ref name personal page Science, ecology and advocacy. ref name personal page See also The Skeptical Environmentalist Harvey was prominent among the many critics of this book. References reflist External links http www.nioo.knaw.nl content jharvey Personal webpage Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Harvey, Jeff ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1957 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Harvey, Jeff Category Canadian ecologists Category 1957 births Category Living people canada scientist stub biologist stub ... more details
Albert Tyler June 26, 1906 1968 was an United States American biology biologist whose research was focused on reproductive biology and development in marine organisms. Tyler was born in Brooklyn, New York . He attended Columbia University majoring in chemistry . When he started graduate studies he took interest in the work of Thomas Hunt Morgan . Morgan took Tyler, and several other graduate students and research fellows with him, to the California Institute of Technology when he was hired to establish the new Division of Biology. Tyler completed his Ph.D. studies on reproductive biology and was appointed to the faculty at Caltech. Tyler s research looked at development and differentiation of embryos from a range of marine organisms. He made early use of immunohistochemical techniques and was one of the first researchers to recognize that maternal messenger RNA present in the ovum could affect differentiation. His research on nucleic acid and protein synthesis in sea urchin eggs was cut short when he died unexpectedly in 1968. References Metz, C. B. 1969. An appreciation of Albert Tyler. Biology of Reproduction 1 119 Pauling, L. 1970. Albert Tyler. Developmental Biology 21 3 12 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tyler ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1906 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1968 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tyler Category 1906 births Category 1968 deaths Category American biologists Category Guggenheim Fellows ... more details
Ethan Allen Andrews September 10, 1859, New York City October 17, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland was an United States American biologist. He received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy Ph.B. from Yale University Yale in 1881 and of Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins in 1887. He took post graduate studies at Yale, studied at the University of Hanover Polytechnicum of Hanover , Germany , and, as a fellow, at Johns Hopkins, where he was appointed assistant professor of biology in 1887, associate professor in 1892, and professor of zoology in 1908. He was president of the Society of American Zoologists in 1904. He contributed on biological subjects to various Scientific journal journals . References NIE Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Andrews, Ethan Allen ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1859 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1956 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Andrews, Ethan Allen Category 1859 births Category 1956 deaths Category Yale University alumni Category Johns Hopkins University alumni Category American educators Category People from New York City Category American biologists ... more details
Roger Smith is a UK biologist and founder of the Millennium Seed Bank Project . ref http www.independent.co.uk news the millennium seed bank 1092756.html The Millennium Seed Bank News The Independent Bot generated title ref ref http www.kew.org msbp scitech publications The 20Biologist.pdf ref He was awarded an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List for services to the project. ref http www.independent.co.uk news new year honours 1135267.html NEW YEAR HONOURS News The Independent Bot generated title ref Smith joined the Kew Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1974, ref http www.timesonline.co.uk tol life and style article1115889.ece ref after graduating from Manchester University with a BSc in Botany. ref http www3.open.ac.uk events 200217 44059 nr.doc ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Smith, Roger ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Smith, Roger Category British biologists Category Living people Category Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Category Officers of the Order of the British Empire UK botanist stub ... more details
BLP sources date April 2008 Richard Ellis born April 2, 1938 is an United States American marine biologist , author , and illustrator . He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History s division of paleontology , ref http www.msnbc.msn.com id 35584261 ns technology and science science ref special adviser to the American Cetacean Society , and a member of the Explorers Club . He was U.S. delegate to International Whaling Commission from 1980 to 1990. citation needed date September 2011 His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and his murals can be seen in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Museum of Natural History , the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts , ref cite news title Whaling museum offers 24 hour Moby Dick reading newspaper Providence Journal Mass. ed. date Jan 2, 1998 page C.04 ref and Whaleworld, a museum in Albany, Western Australia . He is the author of more than 100 magazine articles, which have appeared in National Geographic , Natural History , Audubon , Curator , National Wildlife , Geo , Australian Geographic , and Reader s Digest . He has written 23 books, including The Book of Sharks, The Book of Whales , Dolphins and Porpoises , Men and Whales , Great White Shark with John McCosker , Encyclopedia of the Sea , Aquagenesis The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea , Deep Atlantic , Monsters of the Sea , Imagining Atlantis , Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn , No Turning Back The Life and Death of Animal Species , Sea Dragons Predators of Prehistoric Seas , Tuna , ref cite news url http articles.sfgate.com 2008 07 22 entertainment 17173126 1 bluefin canned tuna richard ellis work The San Francisco Chronicle first Jason last Warshof date 2008 07 22 title Enjoy the tour, and please don t lick the tuna ref and The Empty Ocean . On Thin Ice , looks into the changing world of polar bears ... Category People associated with the American Museum of Natural History Category 1938 births US biologist ... more details
Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart , Royal Society FRS , Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE born 7 Jun 1935 was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999 2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority . He is married to the former Elizabeth Smales , a senior medical officer at the Scottish Executive . From 1990 to 1995 Stewart was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office and the first Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology 1992 1995 . Stewart is also Chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board NRPB and Chairman of the Health Protection Agency . He has held a number of other high profile appointments including Architect of the Government s Technology Foresight Programme, which was launched in 1995 and Chairman of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Telephones and Health, which reported in 2000. He is a biologist by training. He was Chairman of Tayside University Hospital s NHS Trust but resigned following a critical report from the Tayside Task Force. ref See http www.scotland.gov.uk News Releases 2000 11 6b174db2 4aba 494a 8f2f 24c22d0f6547 ref He has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the Natural Environment Research Council . Stewart was Chief Executive of the Agricultural and Food Research Council , a former Vice President of the Royal Society of London and is a Past President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . s start succession box before Sir John Fairclough title Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government years 1990&ndash 1995 after Sir Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Robert May s end References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata NAME Stewart, Will.i.am ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Scottish biologist DATE OF BIRTH 1935 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Stewart, William Duncan Paterson Category 1935 births Category Living people ... more details
Other people2 Graham Bell disambiguation Infobox scientist name Graham Bell image birth date Birth date and age 1949 03 03 df n birth place Leicester , UK death date death place residence citizenship UK nationality ethnicity fields Evolutionary biology workplaces McGill University alma mater University of Oxford doctoral advisor academic advisors doctoral students notable students known for influences influenced awards religion Graham Arthur Charlton Bell born March 3, 1949 is an England English academic, writer, and evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of variation. He developed the Tangled Bank theory of evolutionary genetics after observing the asexual and sexual behavior patterns of aphids as well as monogonont monogonont rotifer s. Born in Leicester , England , Bell attended Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College Wyggeston School before graduating from St Peter s College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970, a Master of Arts degree in 1971, and a Ph.D. in animal ecology in 1974. He emigrated to Canada in 1975 where he worked as a biologist for the Alberta Civil Service until 1976. In 1976, he joined the faculty of McGill University as a temporary lecturer. He was appointed a Professor in 1989. In 1992, he was appointed Molson Chair of Genetics. He was Director of the Redpath Museum from 1995 to 2005. He is the author of The Masterpiece of Nature 1982 which was described by Richard Dawkins as a beautifully written tour de force , ref Richard Dawkins 2004 The Ancestor s Tale , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 358 ref Sex and Death in Protozoa The History of Obsession 1988 and Selection The Mechanism of Evolution 1996, 2nd ed 2008 . Honors He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994. He was awarded the L o Pariseau Prize in 2002 and the Prix Marie Victorin in 2004. Bibliography 2008. Selection the Mechanism of Evolution, second edition. Oxford University Press. 1996. The Basics of ... more details
George Adelbert Bart Bartholomew June 1, 1919 October 2, 2006 was an American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley . During the Second World War he served as a physicist in the U.S. Navy U.S. Naval Bureau of Ordnance . He earned his PhD at Harvard University , but was associated during the rest of his long career, until his retirement in 1989, with the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA . ref name UCLA Obit http www.eeb.ucla.edu indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey 1222 UCLA Biology George A. Bartholomew Obituary ref He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. ref name AAAS cite web title Book of Members, 1780 2010 Chapter B url http www.amacad.org publications BookofMembers ChapterB.pdf publisher American Academy of Arts and Sciences accessdate May 19, 2011 ref Bartholomew was the inaugural 1993 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award , which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithology ornithological research . ref http www.cooper.org COS COS award miller.html COS Miller Awards ref Bartholomew is also recognized for the large number of prolific scientists that trained under his supervision. Specifically, 39 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and one Master s student were trained in his lab at UCLA. These students went on to train their own students, and as of 2005 his lineage spanned a maximum of seven generations and included nearly 1,200 individuals. ref The Academic Genealogy of George A. Bartholomew http icb.oxfordjournals.org cgi reprint 45 2 231.pdf ref Bartholomew is so well respected among contemporary biologists that it is a source of pride to claim to be in the Bartholomew Tree , which is to be an academic ... NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American biologist DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1919 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE ... more details
James Murray 21 July 1865, Glasgow February 1914 ref http books.google.com books?id kax MW05wFsC&pg PR23&lpg PR23&dq 22James Murray 22 biologist July 1865 1914&source bl&ots cW5arwI60a&sig S8WOxYR7dDLimeETj1 RrRKsdhg&hl en&ei A6fETLP BMP7lweu0KAF&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 5&ved 0CBYQ6AEwBA Riffenburgh, Beau Shackleton s Forgotten Expedition The Voyage of the Nimrod ref was a biologist and explorer. File Karluk party.jpg thumb Murray, first row, second from far right Career In 1902, he helped on a biological survey of the Scottish loch s. ref cite book last Murray, F.R.S.E first Sir James title Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897 1909 publisher National Library of Scotland volume 1 pages 275 334 chapter Biology of the Scottish Lochs, by James Murray url http www.nls.uk maps bathymetric text.cfm?seq 333 ref In 1907, at the age of 41, he served under Ernest Shackleton Shackleton on the Nimrod Expedition . He was in charge of base camp. After the expedition, in 1913, he co wrote a book titled Antarctic Days ref cite book last Murray first James coauthors George Marston title Antarctic days sketches of the homely side of polar life, by two of Shackleton s men publisher A. Melrose year 1913 url http books.google.ca books?id bfeYQAAACAAJ ref with George E. Marston , also a member of the expedition. In 1911, at 46, he joined up with Percy Fawcett , the celebrated explorer, Henry Costin and Henry Manley to explore and chart the jungle in the region of the Peru Bolivian border. Murray, used to the rigors of the polar region s, fared poorly. Eventually Fawcett diverted the expedition to get Murray out, such was his condition. He briefly dropped out of sight, having been recovering in a house in Tambopata District Tambopata . He reached La Paz in 1912, learning that he was thought to have perished. Murrary, angry at perceived mistreatment at Fawcett s hands, wanted to sue, but friends in the Royal Geographical Society advised him against i ... more details
Jeffries Wyman June 21, 1901 November 4, 1995 was an American molecular biologist and biophysicist notable for his research of proteins , amino acids , and on the physical chemistry of hemoglobin . ref name NYT http www.nytimes.com 1995 11 09 us jeffries wyman molecular biologist 94.html Jeffries Wyman, Molecular Biologist, 94 November 09, 1995 ref ref name HARVARD1 http oasis.lib.harvard.edu oasis deliver hua00001 Harvard University Wyman, Jeffries, 1901 1995. Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1957 1985 an inventory Harvard University Archives ref ref name HARVARD2 http mcb.harvard.edu NewsEvents News Wyman.html Harvard University First Jeffries Wyman Fellow Selected ref ref name NAP http www.nap.edu openbook.php?record id 10830&page 363 National Academy of Science National Academies Press Biographical Memoirs V.83 Jeffries Wyman BY ROBERT A. ALBERTY AND ENRICO DI CERA ref ref name JBC http www.jbc.org content 277 46 e34.full The Journal of Biological Chemistry Protein Chemistry and the Development of Allosterism Jeffries Wyman Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill and Martha Vaughan ref Wyman was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , ref name NAP the first scientific advisor to the US Embassy in Paris , ref name HARVARD2 director of a regional science office in the Middle East for UNESCO , ref name HARVARD2 a founder and past secretary general of the European Molecular Biology Organization, ref name NYT professor of biology at Harvard. ref name HARVARD1 Harvard University established Jeffries Wyman Fellowship in his name. ref name HARVARD2 Chronology 1901 born in West Newton, Massachusetts 1923 Harvard University , graduated with highest honors in philosophy and high honors in biology ref name NAP 1926 Ph.D, University College London ref name NAP 1928 1951 a professor of biology at Harvard University ref name HARVARD1 1955 1958 director of a regional science office in the Middle East for Unesco ref name HARVARD2 1958 1984 ... more details
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About the biologist working in the field of ecological design the biologist working on diabetes John A. Todd biologist Other people2 John Todd disambiguation John Todd born 1939 is a biologist working in what is sometimes considered the general field of ecological design , in that his ideas often involve applications that become the basis of alternative technology alternative technologies . His principal professional interests have included solving problems of food production and waste water processing. As an author, he has presented the outcome of the work that he and colleagues have undertaken in a series of books, as well as in the requisite scientific papers. History Todd was born in Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton , Ontario , Canada in 1939. He earned his B.Sc. 1961 in agriculture and his M.Sc. 1963 in parasitology and tropical medicine at McGill University in Montreal , Quebec, after which he did doctoral work in fisheries and oceanography at the University of Michigan . His early professional interest, involving the behavioral ecology of fish, was the basis of his work as an assistant professor of ethology at San Diego State University 1968 1970 , after which he joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts , as an assistant scientist. Todd s wife, Nancy Jack Todd, trained as a dancer and is a skilled writer and editor. She has edited and added introductions to many of John Todd s books, and co written the most recent. Back in the Woods Hole days, John had begun to develop his ideas about how complicated biological food chains worked, and in their conversations Nancy wondered if ecological concepts could serve people s needs. She suggested science needed a human face. Ecological research In 1969 the Todds co founded the New Alchemy Institute to do both fundamental research into aspects of biology and disciplines as well as to apply biological science to technology . Todd and colleagues have designed miniature ecosystems, largely self ... more details
David Haig , is an Australia n evolutionary biologist and geneticist , professor in Harvard University Harvard Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. He is interested in intragenomic conflict , genomic imprinting and parent offspring conflict , and wrote the book Genomic Imprinting and Kinship . His major contribution to the field of evolutionary theory is the kinship theory of genomic imprinting . Significant papers Haig, D. 1993 . Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy. Quarterly Review of Biology, 68, 495 532. Haig, D. 1997 The social gene. In Krebs, J. R. & Davies, N. B. editors Behavioural Ecology an Evolutionary Approach, pp. 284 304. Blackwell Publishers, London. Haig, D. 2000 The kinship theory of genomic imprinting. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 31, 9 32. Wilkins, J. F. & Haig, D. 2003 What good is genomic imprinting the function of parent specific gene expression. Nature Reviews Genetics, 4, 359 368. Haig, D. 2004 Genomic imprinting and kinship how good is the evidence? Annual Review of Genetics, 38, 553 585. Books Haig, D. 2002 Genomic Imprinting and Kinship . Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ. ISBN 0 8135 3027 X External links http www.oeb.harvard.edu faculty haig Home.html Official site at Harvard University http www.news.harvard.edu gazette 2003 03.20 03 haig.html Harvard Gazette news about David Haig http www.edge.org 3rd culture bios haig.html Biography at The Edge Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Haig, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Haig, David Category Living people Category Evolutionary biologists Category Harvard University faculty ... more details
orphan date December 2007 Peter Mayhew is a United Kingdom British biologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom . He is the lead author of a study showing a long term association between global temperature and biodiversity , origination, and extinction in the fossil record . ref cite journal last Mayhew first P. J. authorlink coauthors Jenkins, G. B. & Benton T. M. title A long term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B volume 275 issue 1630 pages 47 53 publisher Royal Society location London date 2008 01 07 url http journals.royalsociety.org content 3x081w5n5358qj01 ?p e1fdebbc5ce24040a66600d8139c307d&pi 6 doi 10.1098 rspb.2007.1302 id accessdate 2008 01 01 pmid 17956842 pmc 2562410 ref This study demonstrated that biodiversity tends to be relatively low during greenhouse phases in Earth history and that extinction rates including mass extinctions tend to be higher. ref cite news last Borenstein first Seth coauthors title Warmer seas spark extinction worries work pages language publisher Toronto Star date 2007 10 24 url http www.thestar.com sciencetech article 269964 accessdate 2008 01 01 ref On the basis of this work he was nominated as one of the Great Britons of 2007 . ref cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Great Britons work publisher date url http www.greatbritons.org awards overview format doi accessdate 2007 01 01 ref He is also author of a textbook on evolutionary ecology . ref cite book last Mayhew first Peter J authorlink coauthors title Discovering Evolutionary Ecology publisher Oxford University Press date 2006 location Oxford pages url doi id http www.worldcat.org oclc 62133413&tab editions OCLC 62133413 isbn 9780198570608 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mayhew, Peter ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Mayhew ... more details
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