| 词条 | Alastair Graham |
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| image = | caption = | birth_date = 1906 | birth_place = Corstorphine, Edinburgh | death_date = {{Death date and age |2000|12|12|1906}} | death_place = Reading, England | nationality = British | fields = Malacology | alma_mater =University of Edinburgh | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = Vera Fretter | known_for = prosobranch gastropods | prizes = Keith Medal {{small|(1949-51)}} Linnean Gold Medal {{small|(1968)}} Frink Medal {{small|(1975)}} }}Alastair Graham, FRS (1906 – 12 December 2000) was a Scottish zoologist who specialised in malacology.[1] He was born in Costorphine, near Edinburgh and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, leaving in 1924 as Dux of School. He entered Edinburgh University and was awarded an MA in 1927 but then turned to science, gaining a B.Sc in Zoology in 1929. After a short period of research at Edinburgh he was appointed a lecturer at Sheffield University where he developed his lifelong interest in prosobranch gastropods. After four years in Sheffield he was appointed to a Readership at Birkbeck College, London, becoming Head of Department in 1943 and Professor in 1947. In 1952 he accepted the Chair of Zoology at the University of Reading, where he co-authored a classic monograph, British prosobranch molluscs, with Dr Vera Fretter, which was published in 1962. He became Dean of the Faculty and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the latter for two terms, before his retirement in 1972. He served as President of the Malacological Society of London from 1954 to 1957, and as Editor of their Proceedings from 1969 to 1985. Honours and awardsGraham was awarded a D.Sc. (London) in 1944, the Keith Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1951, the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1968, and the Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London in 1975. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.[2] Private lifeHe died in Berkshire in 2000. He had married twice; firstly Gwynneth Hayes, with whom he has two sons and secondly, after her death, Elizabeth Andrews. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.malacsoc.org.uk/malacological_bulletin/BULL37/OBITUARY.htm|title= Alistair Graham F.R.S|publisher= Malacological Society|accessdate= 18 November 2017}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Alastair}}2. ^{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=18&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Graham%27%29|title= Fellow Details|publisher= Royal Sciety|accessdate= 18 November 2017}} 9 : 1906 births|2000 deaths|People from Edinburgh|People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|British zoologists|20th-century British scientists|Fellows of the Royal Society|Malacologists |
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