biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1975)
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| biography:
| Physiologist and writer, born in Southsea, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and held academic appointments in zoology in England, Scotland, Canada, and South Africa before becoming professor of zoology at Birmingham (1941–7), and then professor of medical statistics (1947–61). He wrote several popular books on scientific subjects, including Mathematics for the Million (1936) and Science for the Citizen (1938), as well as many specialist publications. In The Loom of Language (1943), he set out his version of an international auxiliary language, Interglossa. |
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