Peter Sneath

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Peter H. A. Sneath
Born(1923-11-17)17 November 1923[1]
Died9 September 2011(2011-09-09) (aged 87)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known fornumerical taxonomy
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsmicrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester
ThesisThe bacterial genus Chromobacterium (1959)
Author abbrev. (botany)Sneath

Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS,[1] MD (17 November 1923 – September 9, 2011) was a microbiologist who co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with Robert R. Sokal. Sneath and Sokal wrote Principles of Numerical Taxonomy,[2] revised in 1973 as Numerical Taxonomy.[3] Sneath reviewed the state of numerical taxonomy in 1995[4] and wrote some autobiographical notes in 2010.[5]

A special issue of the journal Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, on microbial systematics, is dedicated to the memory of Peter Sneath.[6]

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