Thomas Alan Stephenson

Thomas Alan Stephenson (born January 19, 1898 in Burnham-on-Sea , † April 3, 1961 ) was a British zoologist , specialist in sea ​​anemones , and orchid eologist like his father.

Stephenson became interested in natural history by his father, Rev. Thomas Stephenson (1855-1948), a Protestant pastor and amateur botanist and orchidologist, and studied at University College in Aberystwyth . There he became a member of the zoological faculty and in 1940 professor of zoology (although he had to break off his academic training due to illness in 1915). Due to his published work, he later received a doctorate.

He was a lecturer in zoology at University College London from 1922 to 1930 and professor at Cape Town University from 1930 to 1940.

In 1928/29 he took part in the Natural History Museum's Great Barrier Reed Expedition and wrote the section on Australian corals in the final report. In 1947/48 he toured the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America and in 1952 Bermuda. He used his own drawings for his books.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951 .

In 1922 he married Anne Wood, with whom he also collaborated scientifically.

Fonts

• The British Sea Anemones, 2 volumes, Ray Society 1928, 1935

literature

• CM Yonge, Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, 8, 1962

Web links

• Biography at the Natural History Museum