Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich ( born June 21, 1868 in Weston -super- Mare, † January 6, 1946 in Oxford ) was a British zoologist and paleontologist.
Life and work
Edwin Stephen Goodrich was born on June 21, 1868 in Weston -super- Mare, two weeks after his birth, his father died and he became the half-orphans. His mother moved the family to Pau in the French region of Aquitaine. There Goodrich attended the English school and then a French Lycée.
In 1888, Goodrich took on to study art at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London. There he met the zoologist Ray Lankester he inspired him to zoology. In 1892, Goodrich moved to Oxford and continued his studies at Merton College. In the same year Lankester professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Oxford on the Linacre Chair of Zoology and made Goodrich to his assistant. Goodrich won the 1894 Rolleston Memorial Prize and graduated in 1895 with honors. In 1905 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Goodrich researched mainly of marine life and made important contributions to evolutionary theory.
In 1913, Goodrich married Helen Protozoologin Pixell that will subsequently assisted him in his work. his artistic skills and his art studies were begun him later very useful and Goodrich was famous for its beautiful and understandable drawings and diagrams. 1921 Goodrich received the Linacre Chair of Zoology, the chair of his old mentor, he paused to 1945.
In 1932, Goodrich 1936 was awarded the Linnean Medal and the Royal Medal. He was made an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a member of several other scientific academies and received several honorary doctorates.
Works (selection)
- The Vertebrata Craniata ( Cyclostomes and Fishes ). Vol IX of the Treatise on Zoology. London 1909.
- Living organisms: an account of Their origin and evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1924.