Peter Holland (zoologist) explained
| Peter Holland |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1963 |
| Citizenship: | British |
| Fields: | Zoology |
| Workplaces: | University of Oxford, University of Reading |
| Education: | Marple Hall School
- MA, The Queen's College, Oxford; PhD, National Institute for Medical Research, London, 1987
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| Awards: | ZSL Scientific Medal, 1996;[1] De Snoo van ’t Hoogerhuijs Medal, 1999; FRS, 2003;[2] Genetics Society Medal, 2004;[3] Blaise Pascal Medal, 2005;[4] A.O. Kovalevsky Medal, 2006; Linnean Medal, 2012; ZSL Frink Medal, 2015;[5] Darwin Medal, 2019[6] |
| Spouse: | Amanda Susan Horsfall (married 1996) |
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Peter William Harold Holland (born 17 August 1963[7]) is a zoologist whose research focuses on how the evolution of animal diversity can be explained through evolution of the genome. He is the current Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.[8]
Life and career
After graduating in Zoology from The Queen's College, University of Oxford, in 1984 and obtaining a doctorate in genetics at the National Institute for Medical Research in 1987, Peter Holland held a series of research posts including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He become Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading in 1994 at the age of 30. In 2002 he was elected as a Fellow of Merton College and appointed as the 11th Linacre Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where he was head of the Department of Zoology from 2011 to 2016. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003.[9]
Peter Holland was a Trustee of the Marine Biological Association from 1998 to 2018, and Research Committee Chair. He became a Trustee of the Earlham Institute in 2019 and became chair of the board of trustees in 2022.[10]
Publications
- Essential Developmental Biology, 1993 (as co-editor)
- The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms, 1994 (as joint editor)
- Swifter than the Arrow: Wilfred Bartrop, football and war, 2009[11]
- The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction, 2011.[12] Also published in Japanese in 2014 under the title 動物たちの世界六億年の進化をたどる (The world of animals: tracing 600 million years of evolution), and in Arabic in 2016 as المملكة الحيوانية: مقدمة قصيرة جدًّا.
Notes and References
- Web site: ZSL Scientific Medal Winners. The Zoological Society of London. 15 June 2016. 1 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150801075149/http://www.zsl.org/sites/default/files/media/2015-06/ZSL%20Scientific%20Medal%20Winners_2015.pdf. dead.
- Web site: Peter Holland. The Royal Society. 15 June 2016.
- Web site: Genetics Society Medal 2004. The Genetics Society. 15 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160811085229/http://genetics.org.uk/Prizes/GeneticsSocietyMedal2004.aspx. 11 August 2016. dead.
- Web site: Blaise Pascal Medals 2005. European Academy of Sciences. 15 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160325023049/http://www.eurasc.org/medals/pb_medals_05.asp. 25 March 2016. dead.
- Web site: Stars of science recognised at Britain's zoological Oscars. The Zoological Society of London. 22 June 2016.
- Web site: Recipients of Royal Society medals and awards in 2019 announced . The Royal Society . 18 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191019094424/https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/07/royal-society-medals-awards-2019/ . 19 October 2019 . dead .
- Web site: HOLLAND, Prof. Peter William Harold. Who's Who 2016. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc; online edn, Oxford University Press. 8 June 2016.
- Web site: Professor Peter Holland . Merton College, Oxford . 18 July 2019.
- Web site: Peter Holland . 2022-05-30 . royalsociety.org.
- Web site: 2022-05-16 . Earlham Institute appoints new Chair of Board of Trustees . 2022-05-30 . Earlham Institute . en . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519090133/https://www.earlham.ac.uk/newsroom/earlham-institute-appoints-new-chair-board-trustees . dead .
- Book: Holland. Peter. Swifter Than the Arrow: Wilfred Bartrop, Football and War. 10 December 2008. Matador. 9781848760684.
- Book: Holland. Peter. The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction. 24 November 2011. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 9780199593217. 15 June 2016.
