| Authorised form of name | Salt; George (1903 - 2003) |
| Dates | 1903 - 2003 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Loughborough, Leicestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 12/12/1903 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 17/02/2003 |
| Occupation | Ecologist |
| Research field | Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
Emigarated to Canada with family in 1911; attended primary school in Calgary; Crescent Heights Collegiate Institute, Calgary, Canada; University of Alberta, Edmonton; Harvard (1924) and Harvard Gardens, Soledad, Cuba
Career:
United Fruit Company, Columbia; US National Research Fellowship at Harvard; Institute of Entomology laboratory, Farnham Royal; research student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1931); Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1933-2003); University Lecturer in Zoology, Cambridge University (1937-1965); war work for Ministry of Agriculture on the control of wireworms; Tutor for Advanced Students, King's College, Cambridge (1945-1951); collected speicimens in East Africa (1948-1949); field collection in Pakistan (1958-1959); Reader in Animal Ecology, University of Cambridge (1965-1971)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1956 |
| Age at election | 52 |
| Relationships | Married (1939) Joyce Lang (died 2002) |
| Sources | References:
The Independent (04 March 2003, obituary); The Times (27 March 2003, obiturary)
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 447-460, plate, by Sir Patrick Bateson |
| Royal Society code | NA242 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1956/19 | Salt, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/GA/WRS/9399 | Salt, George | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/5060 | Salt, George | nd |
| MS/816 | 'An Account of my Doings 1924-1966' by George Salt | 1966 |
| RR/50/131 | Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'Experimental studies in insect parasitism. II. Superparasitism' by George Salt | November 1933 |
| RR/50/130 | Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'Experimental studies in insect parasitism. I.—Introduction and technique' by George Salt | November 1933 |
| RR/54/119 | Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'Experimental studies in insect parasitism III—host selection' by George Salt | February 1935 |
| RR/62/6 | Referee's report by Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, on a paper 'The sense used by Trichogramma to distinguish between parasitized and unparasitized hosts' by George Salt | [November 1936] |