About Geoffrey Beale
Lived 1913 – 2009 (aged 96). Geoffrey Beale was a British geneticist and naturalist.
Geoffrey Herbert Beale (11 June 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a British geneticist. He founded the Protozoan Genetics Unit, at University of Edinburgh.
Life He grew up in Wandsworth, London, and attended Sutton Grammar School. Influenced by The Science of Life edited by H. G. Wells, he took life sciences as a direction. He earned a first-class honours degree, from Imperial College London, in 1935, and PhD in 1938. He worked at the John Innes Institute, with J. B. S. Haldane.
In World War II, he served in the Intelligence Corps, at the British mission to Murmansk. He worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Family He married Betty; they had three sons (Andrew, Stephen and Duncan).
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geneticist (1913-2009)
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Geoffrey Beale was born on 11 June 1913.
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Geoffrey Beale died on 16 October 2009.
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Geoffrey Beale was a geneticist and naturalist.
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