biography
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Hardy, Sir Alister (Clavering)
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| lived:
| (1896–1985)
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| biography:
| Marine biologist, born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, C England, UK. He served on the Discovery expedition in the Antarctic (1924–8), and in 1928 founded the oceanographic department at Hull University, where he was professor of zoology. Later he became professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Oxford (1946–61). He made quantitative researches into marine plankton, and invented the continuous plankton recorder, which permitted the detailed study of surface life in the oceans. He also gained prominence for original empirical studies that, for the first time, used scientific methodology to investigate religious experience. In 1985 he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in recognition of a lifetime spent seeking evidence of God's centrality to the human condition. |
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