John Krebs, Baron Krebs
John Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs , (born April 11, 1945 in Sheffield ) is a British zoologist, ornithologist and behaviorist. He is active in various official and honorary functions in the UK and is a member of the House of Lords .
Life
Krebs is the son of the German-born British Nobel Prize winner Hans Adolf Krebs . Krebs went to school in Oxford and studied at Oxford University (Pembroke College) with a bachelor's degree in 1966, a master's degree in 1970 and a doctorate also in 1970. In 1970 he was a year demonstrator in ornithology at Oxford. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology at the University of British Columbia (1970 to 1973, where he became Assistant Professor of Ecology). From 1973 he was lecturer in zoology at the University College of North Wales in Bangor and from 1975 lecturer in zoology at the Edward Gray Institute of Field Ornithology in Oxford. During this time he was a Fellow of Wolfson College before becoming an EP Abraham Fellow of Pembroke College in 1981 . In 1988 he became Royal Society Research Professor in the Faculty of Zoology at Oxford and until 2005 a Fellow of Pembroke College. In 2005 he became a principal of Jesus College , Oxford.
He was visiting professor at the University of Miami (1981), Queen's University in Ontario (1982), the University of Toronto (1984), SUNY (1987), the University of California, Davis (1985, Storer Lecturer) and at the Indiana University (Patten Lecturer, Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, 1994).
As a scientist, he dealt with the feeding behavior of birds in particular. He also studied the mental abilities of birds using neurobiological methods.
He was the head of an independent scientific inquiry, the question of efficiency of killing badgers as a preventive measure against bovine tuberculosis examined. These measures had been in place until the early 1970s when a badger protection law was passed. It had previously been hoped to have eradicated bovine tuberculosis by killing the badgers, but this turned out to be a false conclusion in 1971. The 1997 Cancer Report concluded that the effectiveness of the killing measures had not been proven and recommended randomized badger culling trials, which were carried out from 1998 to 2005. The 2007 final report concluded that while killing the badgers localized the spread of the disease, it also led to the spread of the disease and recommended better control of livestock instead.
From 1994 to 1999 he was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council.
From 2000 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Food Standards Agency of Great Britain. In this role he criticized the demand for organic products - neither the quality nor the safety of these products has been scientifically proven.
Honors and memberships
- 1981 Scientific Medal from the Zoological Society of London
- 1996 Frink Medal
- 1983 Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal
- 1999 Elliot Coues Award from the American Ornithologists Union
- 2000 Association for the Study of Animal Behavior Medal
- 2002 Benjamin Ward Richardson Gold Medal from the Royal Society of the Promotion of Health
- 2003 Woodridge Medal from the British Veterinary Association
- 2004 Croonian Lecture of the Royal Society
- 2005 Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution
- 2006 Harben Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of Public Health
- 2006 Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
He has multiple honorary doctorates ( University of Sheffield , University of Wales , University of Birmingham , University of Exeter , University of Stirling , University of Warwick , University of Plymouth , University of Kent , University of Guelph , University of Aberdeen , Lancaster University , Heriot- Watt University , Queen's University Belfast and London South Bank University ).
He has been an external member of the Max Planck Society since 1985 and an honorary member of the German Ornithological Society since 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1984), an external member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and the American Philosophical Society . In 1995 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . He has been an honorary member of the British Ecological Society since 1999. In 1991/92 he was on the Council of the Zoological Society of London and since 2006 its Honorary Fellow. He is Honorary Freeman of the City of London. In 2013 Lord John R. Krebs was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
From 2006 to 2007 he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, a nonprofit independent organization founded in 1991 (funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the National Research Council and the Wellcome Trust).
In 1999 he was beaten to the Knight Bachelor . In 2007 he was promoted to Life Peer with the title Baron Krebs , of Wytham in the County of Oxfordshire, making him a member of the House of Lords , whose Science and Technology Committee he has chaired since 2010. He does not belong to any party in the House of Lords ( Cross Bench ).
Fonts
- with DW Stephens: Foraging Theory , Princeton University Press, 1986
- with Alan C. Kamil, H. Ronald Pulliam: Foraging Behavior , Plenum Press, 1987
- with NB Davies: An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology , 4th Edition, Oxford, Blackwell, 1993
- with NB Davies (ed.): Behavioral Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach , Oxford, Blackwell 1978, 4th edition 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: John Krebs. Academia Europaea, accessed on January 2, 2018 (English, with biographical and other information).
- ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Lord John R. Krebs (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Cancer, John, Baron Cancer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cancer, John Richard; Cancer, Sir John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist, ornithologist and behaviorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield |