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Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS〔 (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was Director of the British Museum (Natural History), President of the Linnean Society, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution. ==Biography== Born on 1 November 1899 in Malden, Surrey (now part of London), de Beer spent most of his childhood in France, where he was educated at the Parisian École Pascal. During this time, he also visited Switzerland, a country with which he remained fascinated for the rest of his life. His education continued at Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in zoology in 1921, after a pause to serve in the First World War in the Grenadier Guards and the Army Education Corps. He soon became a Fellow of Merton College and began to teach at the university's zoology department. In 1938, he was made Reader in Embryology at University College, London. During the Second World War De Beer again served with the Grenadier Guards reaching the rank of temporary lieutenant colonel.〔 〕 He worked in intelligence, propaganda and psychological warfare. Also during the war, in 1940, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660–2004 )〕 In 1945, de Beer became Professor of Zoology and was, from 1946 to 1949, President of the Linnean Society. Then he was Director of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Natural History Museum), from 1950 until his retirement in 1960. He was knighted in 1954, and awarded the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1957. After his retirement, de Beer moved to Switzerland and worked on several publications on Charles Darwin and his own seminal ''Atlas of Evolution''. He also wrote a series of books about Switzerland and the Alps. De Beer returned to England in 1971 and died at Alfriston, Sussex on 21 June 1972. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gavin de Beer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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