Kennedy, John S.

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Born Titusville, Pennsylvania, 1912; educated Westminster School, 1925-1928; read Zoology at University College London, 1929-1933; MSc, University College London; PhD on locusts, including fieldwork in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, awarded 1939; Rockefeller Foundation Malaria Research Laboratory at Tirana, Albania, 1939; Research Officer in the Colonial Office's Middle East Anti-Locust Unit, 1942-1944, organising both Soviet and RAF crop-dusting aircraft; joined Vincent Brian Wigglesworth's Insect Physiology Unit at the Department of Zoology, Cambridge, 1946-1967; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1965; Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Agricultural Research Council and Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of London at Silwood Park, 1967-1983; moved to the Department of Zoology, Oxford, 1983; research interests were aphids, moths and pheromones, insect flight patterns and from the later 1980s 'anthropomorphic misinterpretation of insect behaviour in various contexts'; Gold Medal (Zoology) of the Linnean Society, 1984; Wigglesworth Medal of the Royal Entomological Society, 1985; died, 1993.

Publications: A Conspectus of Aphids as Vectors of Plant Viruses with M F Day and Victor Frank Eastop (Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, 1962); Insect Polymorphism Editor (Royal Entomological Society, London, 1961); The new anthropomorphism (1992).

From the guide to the KENNEDY, Professor John Stodart (1912-1993), 1915-1993, (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)

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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Marston Bates Papers, 1913-1974 Bentley Historical Library
referencedIn William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
creatorOf KENNEDY, Professor John Stodart (1912-1993), 1915-1993 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
referencedIn Thomas J. Dodd Papers, undated, 1919-1971. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Cyrus Hamlin family correspondence, 1850-1915. Houghton Library
referencedIn Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968 Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary
referencedIn Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933. Papers, 1847-1933 Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
referencedIn Committee of Fifteen records, 1900-1901 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Century Company records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
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associatedWith Anti-Locust Research Centre corporateBody
associatedWith Bates, Marston, 1906-1974 person
correspondedWith Century Company corporateBody
associatedWith Committee of Fifteen (New York, N.Y. : 1900) corporateBody
correspondedWith Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 person
correspondedWith Dodd, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1907-1971 person
associatedWith Gunn Donald Livingston fl 1937-1983 person
correspondedWith Hamlin, Cyrus, 1811-1900 person
associatedWith Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine corporateBody
correspondedWith Provine, William B. person
correspondedWith Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933 person
associatedWith Santa Fe Railroad corporateBody
associatedWith University of Cambridge corporateBody
associatedWith University of Oxford corporateBody
associatedWith Wigglesworth Sir Vincent Brian 1899-1994 person
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Albania
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Diaries
Locust
Pests
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Birth 1912-05-19

Death 1993

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