Mark Herbert Williamson is

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at the

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. He is an expert on biological invasions. Williamson attended

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where he gained a BA degree in 1950 and received a D.Phil. in 1958, having been a Departmental Demonstrator in the

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since 1952. Between 1958 and 1962, Williamson was a Senior/Principal Scientific Officer (SSO/PSO) at the

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Laboratory of the Scottish Marine Biological Association. Between 1962 and 1965, he was a Lecturer at the Department of

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. In 1963, he was appointed Professor at the Department of Biology, University of York, on its founding. He was Head of Department in the Department of Biology at York from 1963 until 1984. In 1993, Mark Williamson was appointed

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. In 1994, he received an

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in the

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Books

* Williamson, Mark (1972). ''The Analysis of Biological Populations''. Edward Arnold, London. * Williamson, Mark (1981). ''Island Populations''.

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, Oxford. * Williamson, Mark (1996). ''Biological Invasions''.

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, London. * Williamson, Mark; White, David, eds. (2013).
A History of the First Fifty Years of Biology at York
'. Department of Biology,

.
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References

External links

Mark H. Williamson home page
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