Helen Spurway
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Helen Spurway (c.1917-15 February 1978, Hyderabad, India) was a biologist
and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane
. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with Haldane and conducted research in field biology along with Suresh Jayakar
and others.
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
and the second wife of J. B. S. Haldane
J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...
. She emigrated to India in 1957 along with Haldane and conducted research in field biology along with Suresh Jayakar
Suresh Jayakar
Suresh Dinker Jayakar was an Indian biologist who pioneered in the use of quantitative approaches in genetics and biology....
and others.
Publications
A partial list:- Spurway, Helen. 1955. The Causes of Domestication: An attempt to integrate some ideas of Konrad Lorenz with evolution theory. Journal of Genetics 53:325-362.
- Spurway, Helen, and J. B. S. Haldane. 1953. The comparative ethology of vertebrate breathing. I. Breathing in newts, with a general survey. Behaviour 6:8-34
- Jayakar S. D. and Spurway H. 1966 Sex ratios of some mason wasps. Nature (London ) 212:306-307
External links
- http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/Views/AlphaChron/series/000451/000537/014036/Letters from Joshua LederbergJoshua LederbergJoshua Lederberg ForMemRS was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and...
to Helen Spurway] - Bonner, John Tyler 1998. An Extract From "Memoirs for Family and Friends" Genetics 150: 519-521