Donald Thomas Anderson FRS (born 29 December 1939

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) is an English

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

, lecturer at

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, and Challis Professor of Biology at

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. He is currently based in

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. He married Joanne Claridge in 1960.

Awards

*2001

A.O. Kowalevsky Medal The A.O. Kovalevsky Medal, awarded annually by the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists for extraordinary achievements in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative zoology, is named after the noted Russian embryologist Alexander Kovalevsk ...

Works

''Atlas of invertebrate anatomy''
UNSW Press, 1996,
''Barnacles: structure, function, development and evolution''
Springer, 1994, *''Embryology and phylogeny in annelids and arthropods'', Pergamon Press, 1973, *''Invertebrate zoology'', Editor Donald Thomas Anderson, Oxford University Press, 1998,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Donald Thomas 1939 births Living people Academics of King's College London University of Sydney faculty English zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society People from Eton, Berkshire