Geoffrey Fryer (6 August 1927 – 18 March 2024) was a British biologist.
Life and career
Fryer was born in
Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 6 August 1927. He attended
Huddersfield College, and then the
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...
.
Fryer was the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer at the Windermere Laboratory, and then at the Freshwater Biological Association from 1981 to 1988. He was also an Honorary Professor at the
University of Lancaster
Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...
from 1988.
In 1953, Fryer married Vivienne Hodgson. Together they had one son and one daughter. Fryer died on 18 March 2024, at the age of 96.
Honours
Fryer was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...
in 1972, awarded the Zoological Society of London
Frink Medal
The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "for significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology." It consists of a bronze plaque (76 by 83 millimetres), dep ...
in 1983, and the
Linnean Medal
The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...
in 1987.
Tribute
Fish named after Fryer:
*The cichlid ''
Alticorpus geoffreyi
''Alticorpus geoffreyi'' is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi, where it is widely distributed and can be found at depths of , although it is most common below . The specific name honours the British carcinologist ...
''
Snoeks & Walapa 2004
*The Lake Malawi cichlid ''
Sciaenochromis fryeri''
Konings, 1993
See also
*
:Taxa named by Geoffrey Fryer
References
1927 births
2024 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society
20th-century British biologists
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