RefNo | EC/2019/12 |
Level | Item |
Title | Embley, Thomas Martin:certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 28 March 2019 |
Description | Certificate endorsing election of Martin Embley as a Fellow of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Fellow and citing the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
Citation | Martin Embley has made important contributions to changing how textbooks discuss the origin of eukaryotes, and to falsifying the three domains tree of life. He identified highly reduced forms of mitochondria in eukaryotes that were previously thought to primitively lack mitochondria, and provided insights into their essential functions. These data underpin the now standard view that mitochondria are an ancestral feature of eukaryotes. He pioneered the use of innovative computational methods to obtain more robust inferences of eukaryotic phylogenetic relationships and he has provided convincing evidence that eukaryotes originated from within the Archaea in a new two-domains tree of life. |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Computer printout |
PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
AccessStatus | Closed |
AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |