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G.D. Hale Carpenter MBE MA DM FRS (26 October 1882 in Eton, Berkshire – 30 January 1953 in Oxford) was a British entomologist and physician. He worked first at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in Uganda, on tse-tse flies and sleeping sickness. His main work in zoology was on mimicry in butterflies, an interest he developed in Uganda and Tanganyika. He succeeded E.B. Poulton as Hope Professor of Zoology at Oxford University from 1933–1948.〔Remington, Charles L. 1954. ''Lepidopterist's News'', 8, p31-43.〕 ==Biography== Carpenter was a son of Philip Herbert Carpenter DSc FRS, a schoolmaster at Eton College, a grandson of the naturalist and physiologist William Benjamin Carpenter, and a great-grandson of Lant Carpenter, a Unitarian minister. Carpenter attended St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1904. He then studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London, graduating MB ChB (the standard medical degree at the University of London) in 1908. He then joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and took the DM in 1913 with a dissertation on the tsetse fly (''Glossina palpalis'') and sleeping sickness. In 1919 he married Amy Frances Thomas-Peter from Cornwall. The marriage had no issue. 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「Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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