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Authorised form of name	Goodey; Tom (1885 - 1953); nematologist
Dates	1885 - 1953
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England
Date of birth	28 July 1885
Date of death	07/07/1953
Occupation	nematologist
Research field	Protozoa
	Parasitology
	Protozoology
	Morphology
	Nematology
Activity	Eduction: Victoria Board School, Wellingborough; Northampton Grammar School (1899); Birmingham University (BSc); (MSc) Career: Worked as a protozoologist at Rothamstead on the role of soil protozoa in the phenomena of partial soil sterilisation (1912-18); worked on amoebic dysentery at Birmingham (1914-1918); joined the London School of Tropical Medicine; became senior member of staff at the Institute of Agricultural Parasitology; Head of the Nematology Department at Rothamstead; retired (1952). Honours: OBE 1950
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	20/03/1947
Age at election	62
Proposer	Robert Thomson Leiper; Edward John Russell; Edward Hindle; Vincent Brian Wigglesworth; David Keilin; Frederick Tom Brooks; David Meredith Seares Watson
RSActivity	Awarded the Mackinnon Studentship of the Royal Society.
Relationships	Parents: Thomas Goodey, leather worker, and Hannah (nee Clayson), the daughter of an agricultural worker. Spouse: Constance Lewis (27 July 1912).
PublishedWorks	RCN 17710 ISBN 017256
OtherInfo	Noted for his contributions to the study of nematology.
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir	Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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Source	Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1954 vol 9 pp 141-152, plate, by F C Bawden
Code	NA657

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
IM/GA/WS/2631	Goodey, Tom	1946
NLB/43/4	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Tom] Goodey, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Rothampstead Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts	19 October 1910
NLB/44/80	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Tom] Goodey	2 May 1911
NLB/42/508	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Tom] Goodey	24 June 1910
NLB/44/447	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Tom] Goodey, Rothamstead Experimental Station	July 1911
RR/21/75	Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'Investigations on protozoa in relation to the factor limiting bacterial activity in soil' by Tom Goodey	nd [1914]
RR/23/30	Referee's report by Alfred Daniel Hall, on a paper 'Further observations on protozoa in relation to soil bacteria' by Tom Goodey	8 April 1916
RR/20/51	Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'The excystation of colpoda cucullus from its resting cysts, and the nature and properties of the cyst membranes' by Tom Goodey	March 1913
RR/23/31	Referee's report by Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman, on a paper 'Further observations on protozoa in relation to soil bacteria' by Tom Goodey	29 May 1916
EC/1947/12	Goodey, Tom: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/41/105	Referee's report by William Thomas Calman, on a paper 'On a remarkable new nematode, Tylenchinema oscinellæ gen, et sp. n., parasitic in the frit-fly, Oscinella frit L., attacking oats' by Tom Goodey	4 February 1930
RR/41/106	Referee's report by James Hartley Ashworth, on a paper 'On a remarkable new nematode, Tylenchinema oscinellæ gen, et sp. n., parasitic in the frit-fly, Oscinella frit L., attacking oats' by Tom Goodey	30 January 1930
NLB/44/789	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to T [Tom] Goodey, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts	10 November 1911

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