- Philip Sheppard
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name = Philip Sheppard
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known_for = Population genetics oflepidoptera , and work onRh disease .
birth_date = birth date|1921|7|27|df=y
birth_place =Marlborough ,Wiltshire ,England .
death_date = death date|1976|10|17|df=y (Age 55)
death_place =
death_cause = Acute leukaemia
occupation = Professor ofGenetics
spouse = Patricia Beatrice Lee
(married 1948–1976)
children = 3 sonsProfessor Philip MacDonald Sheppard, F.R.S. (27 July 1921 –17 October 1976 ) was a Britishgeneticist andlepidopterist . He made advances in ecological andpopulation genetics inlepidoptera , pulmonate landsnails and humans. In medical genetics, he worked with Sir Cyril Clarke onRh disease .He was born on 27 July 1921 in
Marlborough ,Wiltshire , England and attendedMarlborough College from 1935 to 1939.*1940 to 1945 -
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (prisoner-of-war from 1942 to 1945).
*1946 to 1948 - StudiedZoology atWorcester College ,Oxford University .
*1956 to 1959 - Lecturer at Liverpool University
*1959 to 1962 - Reader at Liverpool University
*1963 to 1976 - Professor of genetics atLiverpool University
*18 March 1965 - FRS
*1974 -Darwin Medal of theRoyal Society
*1975 -Linnean Medal (Gold Medal) for Zoology from theLinnean Society of London Cyril Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine forswallowtail butterfly pupa that had been placed by Sheppard. They met and began working together in their common interest of lepidoptery. They also worked on Rh disease.In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of
scarlet tiger moth s by the Wirral Way,West Kirby ,Merseyside , which were rediscovered in 1988 byCyril Clarke , who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.Sheppard married Patricia Beatrice Lee in 1948. They had three sons. He died of acute
leukemia on October 17, 1976.References
*Sheppard P.M. 1958. "Natural Selection and Heredity". London: Hutchinson. last ed 1975.
*Dictionary of Scientific Biography vol 18 pp 814-816.
*Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 465-500, plate, by Sir Cyril Clarke.
* [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/sheppard.htm Biography and list of papers]
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NAME= Sheppard, Philip
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Professor ofGenetics
DATE OF BIRTH= 27 July 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH=Marlborough ,Wiltshire ,England .
DATE OF DEATH= 17 October 1976
PLACE OF DEATH=England
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