Peter J. Miller

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Peter James Miller (* 1936 ) is a British ichthyologist and university professor .

Life

In 1958 Miller received a Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of Liverpool . In 1963 he was with the dissertation Studies on the Biology and Taxonomy of British Gobiid Fishes at the same university for Ph.D. PhD.

From 1961 to 1964 Miller was a zoological assistant and from 1964 to 1966 he was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow . From 1966 to 1980 he was a lecturer in zoology, from 1980 to 1998 he was a reader and since 1998 he has been Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Bristol .

Miller is an expert on the goby family (Gobiidae). He described several new species, including Knipowitschia mrakovcici , Pomatoschistus montenegrensis , Didogobius bentuvii, and Egglestonichthys patriciae, and he had a scientific interaction about gobies with the then Japanese Crown Prince Akihito , who himself published several scientific articles on this fish family.

In 1973 Miller wrote the chapter on gobies in the Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean by Jean-Claude Hureau and Théodore Monod . In 1979 he published his book Fish Phenology , in 1996 he published Miniature Vertebrates: The Implications of Small Body Size (Symposia of the Zoological Society of London) and in 1997 he published the book Collins Pocket Guide - Fish of Britain and Europe , by Mick Loates was illustrated. In 2004 the work The Freshwater Fishes of Europe: Gobiidae 2 appeared .

literature

  • Who's who of British Scientists , Ohio University Press 1964, p. 1029

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hideo Mohri: Emperor Akihito [1933–] and Prince Hitachi [1935–] - The Second Generation Biologists In: Imperial Biologists: The Imperial Family of Japan and Their Contributions to Biological Research. Springer Biographies, 2019, ISBN 978-981-13-6755-7 , p. 134
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Peter J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Peter James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ichthyologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1936