Richard Southwood

Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood DL, FRS ( born June 20, 1931 in Northfleet, Kent; † 26 October 2005, Oxford ) was a British zoologist, ecologist and entomologist.

Biography

After studying at the University of London from 1949 to 1955, he wrote in 1959 together with Dennis Leston the textbook Land and Water Bugs on the British Isles ( "Land and water bugs of the British Isles " ), in which they scientific and popular approaches combined with each other. At the same time, they explored the relationship between insects and plants.

Later, he was from 1967 to 1969, first director of the research station of the Imperial College London Silwood Park, before he then worked for ten years to 1979, Professor of Zoology and Applied Entomology at Imperial College. 1979 he was appointed on the Linacre Chair of Zoology at the University of Oxford, which he held until 1993. In 1977 he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Between 1981 and 1986 he was also chairman of the Royal Commission on environmental 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 science, he was beaten in 1984 by Queen Elizabeth II knighted. In the same year he became chairman of the Anglo - Scandinavian Committee for the program against the acidification of the oceans (Surface Water Acidification Programme) and held that office until 1990. The following year, he was also from 1985 to 1994 Chairman of the National Radiation Protection Authority ( National Radiological Protection Board ).

After he was also from 1989 to 1993 Vice- Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he was last seen thereafter until 1998 Pro- Vice- Chancellor of the University.

Source

• " Chambers Biographical Dictionary ", Edinburgh 2002, pp. 1419, ISBN 0-550-10051-2