biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–93)
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| biography:
| Entomologist and environmentalist, born in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Cambridge and London, and his early career was in medical entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1955 he was appointed head of the entomology department at Rothamsted Experimental Station, and in 1961 founded and directed the Nature Conservancy's experimental station at Monks Wood, Huntingdon. Here he led research into the deleterious effects of pesticides on the environment, and advocated the advantages of biological control of insect pests. He founded the leading journal Environmental Pollution in 1970. |
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