Robert McNeill Alexander - Curriculum vitae#
Obituary
, The Telegraph
Qualifications:
- B.A. Cambridge 1955
- Ph.D. Cambridge 1958
- M.A. Cambridge 1959
- D.Sc. Wales 1969
- Fellow of the Institute of Biology 1969
Posts:
- University College of North Wales
- Assistant Lecturer 1958-61
- Lecturer 1961-68
- Senior Lecturer 1968-69
- University of Leeds
- Emeritus Professor 1999-
- Research Professor 1999-2007
- Professor of Zoology 1969-1999
- Head of Department of Pure and Applied Zoology 1969-1978 and 1983-1987
- Deputy Head of Department of Pure and Applied Biology 1987-1992
Honours:
- Minor (1952) and later Major (1953) Scholar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
- Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London 1969
- Linnean Medal for Zoology, Linnean Society of London 1979
- Harris Memorial Lecturer, University of Bristol, 1980
- Honorary Member, American Society of Zoologists (now the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology), 1986
- Woolmer Memorial Lecturer, Biological Engineering Society, 1986
- William Smith lecturer, Geological Society, 1987
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1987
- Barrington Memorial Lecturer, University of Nottingham, 1991
- Bidder lecturer, Society for Experimental Biology, 1991
- Muybridge Medal, International Society for Biomechanics, 1991
- Alley Memorial Lecturer, University of Iowa, 1994
- Member, Academia Europaea, 1996
- Palaeontological Society Annual Address, 1996
- Huxley Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 1997
- Distinguished Lecturer in Biomechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1997
- Symposium in Robert McNeill Alexander's honour at the Main Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, subsequently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, 1999.
- Robert McNeill Alexander's successor at Leeds University, Professor J. M. V. Rayner, is given the title Alexander Professor of Zoology, 1999
- Pearl Memorial Lecturer, Human Biology Association, 2000
- Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in The Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2000.
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001.
- Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Aberdeen, 2002.
- Samuel Haughton Lecturer, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 2003.
- Honorary doctorate, University of Wageningen, 2003.
- Honorary Fellow, Zoological Society of London, 2003.
- Borelli Award, American Society for Biomechanics, 2003.
- Member, European Academy of Sciences, 2004.
Committees:
- Society for Experimental Biology,
- Member of Council 1966-68
- Vice-President 1993-95
- President 1995-97
- Science Research Council, Biological Sciences Committee
- member of Advisory Group III 1972-74
- chairman of Advisory Group III 1974-77
- member of Biological Sciences
- Committee 1974-77
- Royal Society -
- Government Grant Board G 1979-82
- Government Grant Board H 1991-94
- Sectional Committee 7 1987-89
- Sectional Committee 9 1989-90, 1998-2001
- (chairman 1999- )
- Education Committee 1988-89
- Chairman, Biological Education Committee 1988-89
- Soiree Committee 1989-93
- Editorial Board, Phil. Trans. B 1989-94
- Editorial Board, Proceedings B 1994-97
- Editor, Proceedings B 1998-2004
- Research Fellowships Panel Bii 1994-96
- Publications Management Committee 1995-2004
- Zoological Society of London -
- Publications Committee 1983-88
- Awards Committee 1984-99
- Council 1988-91
- Vice-President 1990-91
- Secretary 1992-99
- Secondary Examinations Council 18+ Biology Committee 1984-86
- National Committee for Biophysics 1985-90
- Zoology Liaison Group (Heads of University Zoology Depts.) 1986-88
- Adviser, Association of Commonwealth Universities 1983-89
- University of London, Standing Panel of Experts in Biology 1981-
- Chairman of Advisory Board, McGraw-Hill/IBiS project 1991-2
- Chairman of Biodiversity Consortium, Teaching and Learning Technology Programme 1992-8
- Honorary Council Member Rural Buildings Preservation Trust 1994-2001
- Honorary Research Associate, City of Leeds Museum 1994-
- President, International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists 1997-2001
- Director, Biosis UK 1999-2003
- Chairman of the Advisory Group, Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience, 2001-2003.
- Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Virtual School of Biodiversity, University of Nottingham, 2001-2003.
- Member, Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology Advisory Committee, 2001-
- Visiting Professorships, for periods of a few weeks or months each
- Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology 1973
- Duke University, Department of Zoology 1975
- University of Nairobi, Department of Animal Physiology 1976, 1977, 1978
- Zoological Institute, University of Basel 1986
- St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia 1990
- University of California, Davis 1992
