Frederick Stratten Russell
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Sir Frederick Stratten Russell Template:Post-nominals[1] (3 November 1897 – 5 June 1984) was an English marine biologist.
Russell was born in Bridport, Dorset, and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From 1924 he worked for the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, becoming its director in 1945. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1938, was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1961, and knighted in 1965. The National Marine Biological Library at the Marine Biological Association retains much of Russell's scientific and personal papers for the period 1921-1984.[2]
Russell studied the life histories and distribution of plankton. He also discovered a means of distinguishing between different species of fish shortly after they have hatched. He was the author of The Medusae of the British Isles (1953–1970). He served in both World Wars, being awarded, among others, the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He was the father of W. M. S. Russell.
Taxon named in his honor
- Russell’s dragonet, Callionymus russelli C. R. Johnson, 1976[3]
References
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- 1897 births
- 1984 deaths
- English marine biologists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- People from Bridport
- Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Linnean Medallists
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France)
- 20th-century English zoologists