Malcolm Clarke (zoologist) explained

Malcolm Clarke
Birth Name:Malcolm Roy Clarke
Birth Date:1930 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Birmingham
Death Place:Pico, Azores
Nationality:British
Known For:"Wide-ranging and major studies of the physiology, distribution and systematics of squid"
Awards:FRS[1]
Spouse:Dorothy Clara Knight

Malcolm Roy Clarke [1] (24 October 1930 – 10 May 2013) was a British marine biologist.[2] He is most well known for his extensive work on cephalopods and whales.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Career

Clarke did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1948 to 1950.[3]

He founded the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, serving for a time as its Secretary and President.[10]

Awards and honours

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981.[1] The deep-sea anglerfish Oneirodes clarkei Swinney & Pietsch, 1988 was named in his honor.[11]

Personal life

Clarke married Dorothy Clara Knight in 1958 and had three sons and one daughter together.

Notes and References

  1. 10.1098/rsbm.2014.0011. Malcolm Roy Clarke 24 October 1930 -- 10 May 2013. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2014. Herring . P. J. . 60. 107–125. Peter Herring.
  2. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.038 . Dedication: Malcolm Clarke, his life and work . Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography . 2013 . 95 . 1–2 . Paul G.K. . Rodhouse.
  3. News: Hoare. Philip. Professor Malcolm Clarke: Acclaimed authority on the sperm whale and giant squid. 9 July 2013. The Independent. 3 June 2013.
  4. 10.1038/193560a0. Significance of Cephalopod Beaks. Nature. 193. 4815. 560–561. 1962. Clarke . M. R. . Malcolm Clarke (zoologist).
  5. Clarke, M.R. 1980. Cephalopods in the diet of sperm whales in the southern hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biologyDiscovery Reports 37: 1–324.
  6. Clarke, M.R. 1986. Editor. A handbook for the Identification of Cephalopod Beaks, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  7. 10.1098/rstb.1996.0088. The Role of Cephalopods in the World's Oceans: An Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 351. 1343. 979–983. 1996. Clarke . M. R.. Malcolm Clarke (zoologist).
  8. 10.1017/S0025315414000204 . Malcolm Roy Clarke, FRS . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom . 95 . 5 . 2014 . 865–870 . Paul G.K. . Rodhouse. 85913966 .
  9. 10.1017/S0025315413001057. 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. 2013. Lipinski . M. . free.
  10. Web site: National Oceanography Centre. Dr Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS. 9 July 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129082354/http://noc.ac.uk/about-us/history/national-oceanography-centre-southampton/influential-scientists/dr-malcolm-roy-clar. 29 November 2013.
  11. Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html

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