Kennedy, John S.
Variant namesBorn 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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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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Birth 1912-05-19
Death 1993