Malcolm Clarke (zoologist)

Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS[2] (1930–2013) was a British marine biologist.[3] He is most well known for his extensive work on cephalopods and whales.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Malcolm Clarke FRS
Born
Malcolm Roy Clarke

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

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.[1]

Awards and honours

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.[2] 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

  1. National Oceanography Centre. "Dr Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS". Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  2. Herring, P. J. (2014). "Malcolm Roy Clarke 24 October 1930 -- 10 May 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2014.0011.
  3. Rodhouse, Paul G.K. (2013). "Dedication: Malcolm Clarke, his life and work". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 95: 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.038.
  4. Hoare, Philip (3 June 2013). "Professor Malcolm Clarke: Acclaimed authority on the sperm whale and giant squid". The Independent. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  5. Clarke, M. R. (1962). "Significance of Cephalopod Beaks". Nature. 193 (4815): 560–561. doi:10.1038/193560a0.
  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. Clarke, M. R. (1996). "The Role of Cephalopods in the World's Oceans: An Introduction". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 351 (1343): 979–983. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0088.
  9. Rodhouse, Paul G.K. (2014). "Malcolm Roy Clarke, FRS". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95 (5): 865–870. doi:10.1017/S0025315414000204.
  10. Lipinski, M. (2013). "Malcolm Roy Clarke: Marine Biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 94 (6): 1243–1244. doi:10.1017/S0025315413001057.
  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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