Margaret Brown (ichthyologist)
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| Born | 28 September 1918 |
Margaret Elizabeth Brown (28 September 1918 – 18 July 2009) was a British
ichthyologist. Her work on the brown trout (Salmo trutta) after World War II "effectively established the discipline of ecophysiology."[1]
Life
Her father serving in the
Malvern Girls College before she won a scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1937 where she studied zoology under Sidnie Manton. Awarded her M.A. in 1944, she studied the for her Ph.D. which she received the following year. Brown married Professor George C. Varley in 1955 and died on 18 July 2009.[2][1]
Work
During World War II, Brown was a
Linnean Society and served as their vice-president in 1982.[1][3] The cichlid Haplochromis brownae is thought to be named in her honour.[4]
Notes
- ^ . Retrieved 2 November 2017.
- ^ Haines, pp. 45–46
- ^ Haines, p. 46
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 August 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (h-k)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
References
Haines, Catherine M. C. (2001). International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-090-1.
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