Robert McNeill Alexander

Robert McNeill Alexander, CBE, FRS (born 7 July 1934 Lisburn) is a British zoologist, and professor at University of Leeds.^[1]

He was a graduate of the University of Cambridge with a MA, PhD, and from the University of Wales with a DSc. He married Ann Elizabeth Coulton in 1961.^[2]

Awards

• 1979 Linnean Medal for Zoology Linnean Society of London
• 2001 Foreign Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2002 Honorary Fellow Zoological Society of London
• 2003 Borelli Award American Society of Biomechanics

Works

• "Functional Design in Fishes", Hutchinson University Library, 1967, 1970, ISBN 0 09 104751 X
• "Optima for Animals", 1982
• "How dinosaurs ran", Scientific American, 1991
• Animals, Cambridge University Press, 1991
• Exploring biomechanics: animals in motion, Nikei Saiensusha, ISBN 9784532520175
• "Principles of Animal Locomotion", 2003

References

1. ^ http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/staff/profile.php?tag=Alexander
2. ^ The International Who's Who 2004, Europa Publications

External links

• "(Robert) McNeill Alexander", National Portrait Gallery

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