Keith Vickerman Explained

Birth Date:	21 March 1933
Birth Place:	Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Nationality:	British
Spouse:	Moira Dutton
Main Interests:	Natural history, Zoology, Parasitology
Alma Mater:	University of Glasgow
Awards:	Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences Linnean Medal (1906)

Keith Vickerman FRS^[1] FRSE FMedSci (21 March 1933 – 28 June 2016)^[2] was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.^[3] He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98.^[4] He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members.^[3]

Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that antigenic variation could occur in eukaryotic cells, namely in protozoa.

Notes and References

1. Cox. Francis. Gull. Keith. 2021. Keith Vickerman. 21 March 1933—28 June 2016. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71. 491–511 . 10.1098/rsbm.2021.0019 . 237283023 . free.
2. News: Professor Keith Vickerman. 2016-07-13. The Times. 2019-12-27. en. 0140-0460.
3. Cox. Francis. November 2017. Obituary of Professor Keith Vickerman FRS: 1931–2016. Parasitology. en. 144. 13. 1841–1843. 10.1017/S0031182017000403. 0031-1820. free.
4. ‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, 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 12 July 2013