Richard Southwood
Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood DL , FRS (born June 20, 1931 in Northfleet , Kent , † October 26, 2005 in Oxford ) was a British zoologist , ecologist and entomologist .
biography
After studying at the University of London from 1949 to 1955, he wrote in 1959 along with Dennis Leston the reference book Land and Water Bugs on the British Isles ( "land and water bugs on the British Isles "), in which she scientific and popular Combining approaches. At the same time, they researched the relationship between insects and plants .
From 1967 to 1969 he was director of the research station of Imperial College London in Silwood Park, before he was professor of zoology and applied entomology at Imperial College for ten years until 1979 . 1979 he was appointed to the Linacre - Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford , which he held until the 1993rd In 1977 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1981 he was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1988 to the National Academy of Sciences .
Between 1981 and 1986 he was also chairman of the Royal Commission on Pollution (Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution) and at the same time from 1982 to 1984 Vice President of the Royal Society. For his contributions to the science he was in 1984 by Queen Elizabeth II. To Knight Bachelor beaten. In the same year he became chairman of the Anglo- Scandinavian committee for the program against the acidification of the seas (Surface Water Acidification Program) and held this office until 1990. In the following year he was additionally chairman of the national authority for radiation protection from 1985 to 1994 ( National Radiological Protection Board ).
After he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1989 to 1993, he was most recently Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University until 1998.
literature
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, p. 1419, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
- Robert M. May: Professor Sir Richard Southwood. The Independent , November 9, 2005
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| SURNAME | Southwood, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Southwood, Sir Thomas Richard Edmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist, ecologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northfleet , Kent |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2005 |
| Place of death | Oxford |