British zoologist
Keith Vickerman FRS[2] FRSE FMedSci (21 March 1933 – 28 June 2016)[3] was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.[1] He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98.[4] He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members.[1]
Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that antigenic variation could occur in eukaryotic cells, namely in protozoa.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Francis (November 2017). "Obituary of Professor Keith Vickerman FRS: 1931–2016". Parasitology. 144 (13): 1841–1843. doi:10.1017/S0031182017000403. ISSN 0031-1820.
- ^ Cox, Francis; Gull, Keith (2021). "Keith Vickerman. 21 March 1933—28 June 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71: 491–511. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2021.0019. S2CID 237283023.
- ^ "Professor Keith Vickerman". The Times. 13 July 2016. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
- ^ ‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 July 2013
