Sidnie Manton
Sidnie Manton | |
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| Born | 4 May 1902 |
| Died | 2 January 1979 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | St Paul's Girls' School |
| Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge (Sc.D., 1934) |
| Spouse | John Philip Harding (m. 1937) |
| Awards | Linnean Medal (1963) Frink Medal (1977) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Entomology, zoology |
| Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge |
Sidnie Milana Manton, FRS[1] (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was a British entomologist.
Early life
Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a descendant of French aristocracy and a dentist. Her sister was the botanist Professor Irene Manton FRS. She was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School and at St. Paul's Girls' School before joining Girton College, Cambridge in 1921. While at Girton College she was awarded the Montifiore Prize in 1925.[2]
Career
Manton joined Cambridge University and worked on the evolution of the arthropods, publishing "The Arthropoda: Habits, Functional Morphology and Evolution" in 1977.[3]
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1948.[1][4]
In 1992, the Manton crater on Venus was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister Irene Manton.[5] In 2018 the British Ecological Society and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists.[6]
Personal life
Manton married John Philip Harding in 1937. They had one son and one daughter.
References
- ^ a b Fryer, G. (1980). "Sidnie Milana Manton. 4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 26: 327–356. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1980.0010.
- ^ Toogood, Mark; Waterton, Claire; Heim, Wallace (April 2020). "Women scientists and the Freshwater Biological Association, 1929–1950". Archives of Natural History. 47 (1): 16–28. doi:10.3366/anh.2020.0618. ISSN 0260-9541.
- ^ "Manton, Sidnie Milana". Online Encyclopedia. Net Industries. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ "Sisters make their mark on Venus". New Scientist (1848). 7 November 1992. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Sidnie Manton Award". besjournals. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
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