Authorised form of name | Fogg; Gordon Elliott (1919 - 2005) |
Other forms of name | Fogg, Tony |
Surname | Fogg |
Forenames | Gordon Elliott |
Dates | 1919 - 2005 |
Dates and places | Birth: Langar, Nottinghamshire (26 April 1919) Death: Llandegfan, Anglesey (30 January 2005) |
Activity | Profession: Botanist; worked in cyanobacteria Education: Dulwich College; Queen Mary College, London (1937) Career: Registered as a conscientious objector during WW2 conditional on undertaking research, assisted in national survey of seaweed resources - researched algaes used to make water soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea, worked on pest control for Pest Control Ltd at Harston; Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader in Botany, University College London (1945-1960); Professor of Botany, Westfield College, London (1960-1971); Professor of Marine Biology, University College of North Wales (1971-1985) (Emeritus); President, British Phycological Society (1961-1962); Chairman, British Antarctic Survey Scientific Advisory Committee (1971-1964); Chairman, Freshwater Biological Association Council (1974-1985); Chairman, Scientific Advisory Panel, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1974-1982); President, Institute of Biology (1976-1977); sat on Council of NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) and on Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Honours: CBE 1983 |
Royal Society activity | Membership: Fellow Election Date: 18/03/1965 Lectures: Leeuwenhoek 1968 Council: 1980-1982 |
Relationships | Son of a Methodist minister; married (1945) Beryl Llechid-Jones (died 1997) |
Sources | Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 97-116, plate, by Anthony E Walsby Obituary in Independent (18 February 2005) |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/61625549 |
Royal Society code | NA4169 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1965/10 | Fogg, Gordon Elliott: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
IM/GA/WRS/9375 | Fogg, Gordon Elliott | nd |
RR/70/101 | Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Quantitative studies on the wetting of leaves by water' by Gordon Elliott Fogg | 1947 |
RR/70/100 | Referee's report by David Thoday, on a paper 'Quantitative studies on the wetting of leaves by water' by Gordon Elliott Fogg | 1947 |
MS/911 | Watercolour collection of Gordon (Tony) Fogg | 18th Century-20th Century |
MS/916 | Lecture notes by Gordon Elliott Fogg | 1938-1946 |