Geoffrey Fryer Explained

Geoffrey Fryer (born, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 6 August 1927) is a British biologist.^[1]

Education

Huddersfield College, and University of London.

Personal life

Married Vivienne Hodgson, 1953. One son [1961] and one daughter [1963].

Career

Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Windermere Laboratory, Freshwater Biological Association 1981-1988. Honorary Professor, University of Lancaster since 1988.

Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972. Awarded the Zoological Society of London Frink Medal in 1983 and the Linnean Medal in 1987.

Tribute

Fish named after Fryer:

• The cichlid Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa 2004
• The Lake Malawi cichlid Sciaenochromis fryeri Konings, 1993

References

1. ‘FRYER, Dr Geoffrey’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 8 July 2013