| Authorised form of name | Thorpe; William Homan (1902 - 1986) |
| Other forms of name | William Hornan |
| Dates | 1902 - 1986 |
| Date of birth | 01/04/1902 |
| Date of death | 07/04/1986 |
| Research field | Entomology |
| Activity | Education:
Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare; Mill Hill boarding school; Jesus College, Cambridge ( Agriculture, Diploma in Agricultural Science); Rockefeller Fellowship (1927-1929); PhD, Cambridge University (1929)
Career:
Lecturer in Entomology, University of Cambridge (1932); Fellow and Tutor, Jesus College, Cambridge (1932)
Awards:
Godman-Salvin Medal, British Ornithologists' Union (1968); Frink Medal, Zoological Society of London (1980); Fyssen Prize (1982)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1987 vol 33 pp 619-639, plate, by R A Hinde
Notes:
Alt names in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1987 vol 33 |
| Royal Society code | NA1991 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1951/22 | Thorpe, William Homan: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/44/100 | Referee's report by David Keilin, on a paper 'Experiments upon respiration in the larvæ of certain parasitic hymenoptera' by William Homon Thorpe | November 1931 |
| RR/65/263 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'Further experiments on olfactory conditioning in a parasitic insect. The nature of the conditioning process' by William Homan Thorpe | October 1938 |
| RR/63/112 | Referee's report by William Robin Thompson, on a paper 'Olfactory conditioning in a parasitic insect and its relation to the problem of host selection' by William Homan Thorpe and F G W Jones | May 1937 |
| RR/67/418 | Referee's report by Harold Munro Fox, on a paper 'Further studies on pre-imaginal olfactory conditioning in insects' by William Homan Thorpe | March 1939 |
| IM/GA/WS/4102 | Thorpe, William Homan | nd |
| RR/78/1 | Letter from William Homan Thorpe to D C Martin, concerning three papers: 'The origin of the odours by which honeybees distinguish their companions' by H Kalmus and C R Ribbands, 'Division of labour in the honeybee community' by C R Ribbands, and 'Food transmission within the honeybee community' by H L Nixon and C R Ribbands | [1952] |
| RR/78/2 | Referee's report by William Homan Thorpe, on a paper 'The origin of the odours by which honeybees distinguish their companions' by H Kalmus and C R Ribbands | 2 February 1952 |
| RR/78/3 | Referee's report by William Homan Thorpe, on a paper 'Division of labour in the honeybee community' by C R Ribbands | 2 February 1952 |
| RR/78/4 | Referee's report by William Homan Thorpe, on a paper 'Food transmission within the honeybee community' by H L Nixon and C R Ribbands | 2 February 1952 |