Keith Vickerman FRS FRSE FMedSci (21 March 1933 – 28 June 2016) was a British zoologist born in

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, Yorkshire. He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the

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, 1984–98.‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members. Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that

antigenic variation Antigenic variation or antigenic alteration refers to the mechanism by which an infectious agent such as a protozoan, bacterium or virus alters the proteins or carbohydrates on its surface and thus avoids a host immune response, making it one of ...

could occur in

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, namely in protozoa.

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1933 births 2016 deaths Academics of the University of Glasgow British zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Linnean Medallists {{authority control