Donald Thomas Anderson
FRS (born 29 December 1939
Eton, Berkshire
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) is an English
zoologist
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, lecturer at
King's College London
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, and Challis Professor of Biology at
University of Sydney
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. He is currently based in
Australia
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.
He married Joanne Claridge in 1960.
Awards
*2001
A.O. Kowalevsky Medal
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
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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