Professor John Guest Phillips FRS FZS (13 June 1933 – 14 March 1987) was an eminent biologist. He was born in Swansea and educated at

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and the

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; where, after gaining his BSc, he joined the research group of Chester Jones to complete a PhD in endocrinology. Following his doctorate he took up a fellowship at the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at

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with Grace E. Pickford. After a lectureship at

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Phillips was appointed to the Chair of Zoology at the

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. He returned to the UK to become Professor of Zoology, from 1967–79, and Dean of the Faculty of Science (1978-1980) at the

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, Director of the Wolfson Institute for Gerontology (1979-1986) (located at the

) and later

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of Loughborough University from 1986-1987. He was secretary of the

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. Phillips' research was predominantly in the fields of

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, notably concerning the salt glands of sea birds, and the biological basis of ageing (gerontology).

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External links

Brief biography of John Phillips

‘PHILLIPS, Prof. John Guest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 21 May 2011
1933 births 1987 deaths Academics of the University of Hull Alumni of the University of Liverpool Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Llanelli Boys' Grammar School Secretaries of the Zoological Society of London Vice-Chancellors of Loughborough University 20th-century British zoologists Scientists from Swansea {{UK-zoologist-stub