British marine biologist
Malcolm Clarke
Born Malcolm Roy Clarke
(1930-10-24 ) 24 October 1930Died 10 May 2013(2013-05-10) (aged 82) Nationality British Known for "Wide-ranging and major studies of the physiology, distribution and systematics of squid"[ 2] Spouse Dorothy Clara Knight Awards FRS [ 1] Scientific career Institutions
Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS [ 1] (24 October 1930 – 10 May 2013) was a British marine biologist .[ 3] He is most well known for his extensive work on cephalopods and whales.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
Clarke did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1948 to 1950.[ 4]
He founded the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, serving for a time as its Secretary and President.[ 2]
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.[ 12]
Clarke married Dorothy Clara Knight in 1958 and had three sons and one daughter together.
^ a b c Herring, P. J. (2014). "Malcolm Roy Clarke 24 October 1930 -- 10 May 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 60 : 107–125. doi :10.1098/rsbm.2014.0011 .
^ a b National Oceanography Centre. "Dr Malcolm Roy Clarke FRS" . Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013 .
^ Rodhouse, Paul G.K. (2013). "Dedication: Malcolm Clarke, his life and work". Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography . 95 : 1–2. doi :10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.05.038 .
^ a b Hoare, Philip (3 June 2013). "Professor Malcolm Clarke: Acclaimed authority on the sperm whale and giant squid" . The Independent . Retrieved 9 July 2013 .
^ Clarke, M. R. (1962). "Significance of Cephalopod Beaks". Nature . 193 (4815): 560–561. doi :10.1038/193560a0 .
^ Clarke, M.R. 1980. Cephalopods in the diet of sperm whales in the southern hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biology
Discovery Reports 37: 1–324.
^ Clarke, M.R. 1986. Editor. A handbook for the Identification of Cephalopod Beaks , Clarendon Press, Oxford.
^ Clarke, M. R. (1996). "The Role of Cephalopods in the World's Oceans: An Introduction". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 351 (1343): 979–983. doi :10.1098/rstb.1996.0088 .
^ Rodhouse, Paul G.K. (2014). "Malcolm Roy Clarke, FRS" . Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom . 95 (5): 865–870. doi :10.1017/S0025315414000204 . S2CID 85913966 .
^ Lipinski, M. (2013). "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. doi :10.1017/S0025315413001057 .
^ Malcolm Clarke's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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