Malcolm Clarke (zoologist)

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Malcolm Clarke
FRS
Born
Malcolm Roy Clarke

(1930-10-24)24 October 1930
Birmingham
Died10 May 2013(2013-05-10) (aged 82)
Pico, Azores
NationalityBritish
Known for"Wide-ranging and major studies of the physiology, distribution and systematics of squid"[2]
SpouseDorothy Clara Knight
AwardsFRS[1]
Scientific career
Institutions

Malcolm Roy Clarke

cephalopods and whales.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Career

Clarke did his

National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1948 to 1950.[4]

He founded the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, serving time its Secretary and President.[2]

Awards and honours

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.[1] The deep-sea anglerfish Oneirodes clarkei Swinney & Pietsch, 1988 was named in his honor.[12]

Personal life

Clarke married Dorothy Clara Knight in 1958 and had three sons and one daughter together.

References

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  2. ^ a b National Oceanography Centre. "Dr Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS". Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  3. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.038
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  4. ^ a b Hoare, Philip (3 June 2013). "Professor Malcolm Clarke: Acclaimed authority on the sperm whale and giant squid". The Independent. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  5. doi:10.1038/193560a0
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  6. ^ Clarke, M.R. 1980. Cephalopods in the diet of sperm whales in the southern hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biology Discovery Reports 37: 1–324.
  7. ^ Clarke, M.R. 1986. Editor. A handbook for the Identification of Cephalopod Beaks, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  8. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0088
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  9. S2CID 85913966
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  10. doi:10.1017/S0025315413001057
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  11. ^ Malcolm Clarke's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  12. ^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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