E.B. Ford

E.B. Ford
Nascimento 23 de abril de 1901
Papcastle
Morte 21 de janeiro de 1988 (86 anos)
Oxford
Cidadania Reino Unido
Alma mater
  • Wadham College
  • St. Bees School
Ocupação geneticista, biólogo, professor universitário
Distinções
  • Medalha Darwin (In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the genetical theory of evolution by natural selection, particularly in natural populations., 1954)
Empregador(a) Universidade de Oxford

Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford FRS Hon. FRCP (23 de Abril de 1901 – 2 de Janeiro de 1988) foi um geneticista ecológico britânico. Foi líder entre os biólogos britânicos que investigaram o papel da selecção natural na natureza.

enquanto estudante, interessou-se no grupo dos lepidópteros, o grupo que inclui as borboletas e traças. Acabou por estudar a genética das populações naturais, e inventou o campo da genética ecológica. Foi agraciado com a Medalha Darwin da Royal Society em 1954. Mais tarde, em 1968, foi agraciado com o Prémio Kalinga da UNESCO, pela popularização da ciências.[1]

Bibliografia

  • Clarke B 1995. Edmund Brisco Ford. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London.
  • Creed R (ed) 1971. Ecological genetics and evolution: Essays in honour of E.B.Ford. Blackwell, Oxford. [an outstanding volume]
  • Hooper, Judith 2002. Of moths and men. Norton.
  • Huxley, Julian 1954. Morphism and evolution. Heredity 9, 1-52.
  • Kettlewell H.B.D. 1973. The Evolution of Melanism. Oxford. (jointly dedicated to Ford and the Nuffield Foundation)
  • Marren P. 1995. The New Naturalists. HarperCollins: London
  • Vane-Wright R.I. and Ackery P.R. 1984. The biology of butterflies. Symposia of the Royal Entomological Society of London no 11.

Obras de Ford

  • Ford E.B. (1931, 8th ed 1965). Mendelism and evolution. Methuen, London.
  • Carpenter, G.D. Hale and E.B. Ford (1933) Mimicry. Methuen, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1938, 2nd ed 1950). The study of heredity. Butterworth, London. 2nd edn: Oxford University Press.
  • Ford E.B. (1940). Polymorphism and taxonomy. In Huxley J. The new systematics. Oxford.
  • Ford E.B. (1942, 7th edn 1973). Genetics for medical students Chapman and Hall, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1945, 3rd edn 1977). Butterflies. New Naturalist #1 Collins, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1951). British butterflies. Penguin Books, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1954, 3rd edn 1972). Moths. New Naturalist #30 HarperCollins, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1964, 4th edn 1975). Ecological genetics. Chapman and Hall, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1965). Genetic polymorphism. All Souls Studies, Faber & Faber, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1976). Genetics and adaptation. Institute of Biology studies, Edward Arnold, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1979). Understanding genetics. Faber and Faber, London.
  • Ford E.B. (1980). Some recollections pertaining to the evolutionary synthesis. In Mayr E. and Provine W.B. (eds) The evolutionary synthesis: perspectives on the unification of biology. Harvard 1980; 1998. [effectively, this is an intellectual autobiography]
  • Ford E.B. (1981). Taking genetics into the countryside. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London.
  • Ford E.B. and J.S. Haywood (1984). Church treasures of the Oxford district. Alan Sutton, Gloucester.

Referências

  1. ↑ Clarke, C (1988), «Edmund Brisco Ford (1902-1988).» (publicado em 3 mar 1988), Nature, 332 (6159), PMID 3279315, doi:10.1038/332020a0 

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