Michael Frederick Claridge FLS

FRES Fres ( el, Φρες) is a village and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Apokoronas, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an ...

FRSB (born 2 June 1934) is a British

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He is Emeritus Professor of Entomology at Cardiff University. He received the

Linnean Medal The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...

for Zoology in 2000 and was President of the

Linnean Society The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

1988–1991.CLARIDGE, Prof. Michael Frederick’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 201
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1934 births Living people British entomologists Presidents of the Linnean Society of London Presidents of the Royal Entomological Society Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology Linnean Medallists {{UK-entomologist-stub