| RefNo | EC/1995/32 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Sneath, Peter Henry Andrews: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1989 |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Sneath has devised ways of quantifying the taxonomic process, of estimating similarities between organisms, and of clustering them. His methods were at first independent of those developed by Sokal in the United States, but later Sneath and Sokal joined forces to produce their seminal work The Principles of Numerical Taxonomy. This book laid the foundations of a new science. Sneath's techniques have been widely applied in many disciplines including botany, zoology, ecology, psychometry, industrial economics, archaeology, anthropology, and molecular evolution. He has made fundamental contributions to bacterial classification, to the development of significance tests for classifications in general, and to comparing the shapes of objects by quantitative methods. He has pioneered the application of computers to systematic biology, microbiology and geology. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4800 | Sneath; Peter Henry Andrews (1923 - 2011) | 1923 - 2011 |