Geoffrey Fryer
Geoffrey Fryer FRS (born, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 6 August 1927) is a British biologist.[1]
Geoffrey Fryer in 1971
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
Selected publications
See also
- Category:Taxa named by Geoffrey Fryer
References
Wikispecies has information related to Geoffrey Fryer.
- ‘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
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