About Geoffrey Fryer
Lived 1927 – 2024 (aged 96). Geoffrey Fryer was a British ichthyologist, ecologist, biologist, carcinologist and zoologist.
Geoffrey Fryer (6 August 1927 – 18 March 2024) was a British biologist.
Life and career Fryer was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 6 August 1927. He attended Huddersfield College, and then the University of London.
Honours Fryer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972, awarded the Zoological Society of London Frink Medal in 1983, and the Linnean Medal in 1987.
Tribute Fish named after Fryer: The cichlid Alticorpus geoffreyi Snoeks & Walapa 2004 The Lake Malawi cichlid Sciaenochromis fryeri Konings, 1993
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Who was Geoffrey Fryer?
British biologist
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Geoffrey Fryer was born on 6 August 1927.
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Geoffrey Fryer died on 18 March 2024.
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Geoffrey Fryer was an ichthyologist, ecologist, biologist, carcinologist and zoologist.
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