Peter Sneath

Peter H. A. Sneath
Born	17 November 1923(1923-11-17)
Died	9 September 2011(2011-09-09) (aged 87)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	microbiology
Known for	numerical taxonomy

Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS, MD (17 November 1923 – September 9, 2011) was a microbiologist who co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with Robert R. Sokal. Sneath and Sokal wrote Principles of Numerical Taxonomy,^[1] revised in 1973 as Numerical taxonomy.^[2] Sneath reviewed the state of numerical taxonomy in 1995^[3] and wrote some autobiographical notes in 2010.^[4]

References

1. ^ Sneath, Peter H. A.; Sokal, Robert R. (1963). Principles of numerical taxonomy (7 ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0716706210. 
2. ^ Sneath, Peter H. A.; Sokal, Robert R. (1973). Numerical taxonomy the principles and practice of numerical classification. San Francisco: Freeman. ISBN 0716706970. 
3. ^ Sneath, P. H. A. (1995). "Thirty Years of Numerical Taxonomy". Systematic Biology 44 (3): 281. doi:10.1093/sysbio/44.3.281.  edit
4. ^ Sneath, P. H. A. (2010). "Reflections on microbial systematics". The Bulletin of BISMiS 1 (1): 77–83. 

• "SNEATH, Prof. Peter Henry Andrews", Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2010 ; online edn, October 2010 accessed 14 Sept 2011 (subscription required)

External links

• Peter H. A. Sneath (1923 - 2011)

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Name	Sneath, Peter Henry Andrews
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Date of birth	17 November 1923
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Date of death	9 September 2011
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