David Richmond Newth

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David Richmond Newth (born October 19, 1921 near Birmingham , Warwickshire , † June 5, 1988 Lochgoilhead , Argyll and Bute ) was a British zoologist and embryonologist . From 1965 to 1981 he was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow .

Life

Newth was born near Birmingham to Annie Munroe Fraser and Herbert Greenway Newth. Newth enjoyed his school education at King Edward VI. Birmingham High School .

After graduating ( Ph.D. ) from University College London (UCL) in 1942, Newth did his military service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) in India during World War II . In 1947 he returned to UCL and began teaching. In 1960 he was entrusted with a professorship in biology in medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. In 1965, Newth was appointed to the Regius Professorship in Glasgow, which was vacant after the resignation of Charles Maurice Yonge in December 1964. In 1973 Newth assumed the presidency of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). He held this until 1979, after which he was deputy president until the end of his life.

Newth knew how to grow the department. Under his leadership, the Department of Zoology at the University of Glasgow became one of the largest in Europe. He also knew how to recruit talented staff, for example his future successor, Keith Vickerman , and his successor Pat Monaghan in the department of applied ornithology in 1968 . In 1979 the chair was granted a second professorship, which was filled with the parasitologist David Crompton . Glasgow was able to further consolidate its position in the research of parasites.

Newth himself became an internationally recognized authority in the field of experimental embryo research. He is a founding member of the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , today's Development .

Since 1990, a lecture, the David Newth Lecture, has been given by renowned scientists at the SAMS annual meeting.

Honors

On March 7, 1966, Newth was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the suggestion of James D. Robertson , Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, Percy W. Brian and John Paul .

Fonts

Books

  • 1956, [Ce que je crois.] A Biologist's View (with Jean Rostand)
  • 1970, Animal Growth and Development
  • 1975, "Simple" nervous Systems (with Peter Norman Russell Usherwood)

items

  • 1948, The early development of the fore-limbs in Xenopus laevis ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 118: 559-567.
  • 1949, A contribution to the study of fore-limb eruption in metamorphosing Anura ; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 119: 643-659.
  • 1956, On the neural crest of the lamprey embryo ; J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol. 4: 358-375
  • 1969, A critique of the Koestler clique — review of Beyond reductionism (ed. A. Koestler) , New Scient., October 2, 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. (PDF) 1783 - 2002. In: Website of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2006, p. 694 , accessed on December 31, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e unknown: David Newth. In: "The University of Glasgow Story" on the University of Glasgow website. August 15, 2008, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b unknown: Scottish Education Department . In: The London Gazette . May 25, 1965, p. 1 .
  4. ↑ a b c Our History began in Edinburgh in 1884. Our Founding Father: Sir John Murray. In: website of the Scottish Association for Marine Sciences Journal . Scottish Association for Marine Scienes, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e unknown: Veterinary, Medical and Life Sciences . Zoology. In: University of Glasgow website. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Obituary - Keith Vickerman, zoologist. Zoologist. In: The Herald. August 1, 2016, accessed January 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Newth, David Richmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newth, David R .; Newth, David; Newth, DR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH near Birmingham , Warwickshire
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1988
Place of death Lochgoilhead , Argyll and Bute