Eric Berry Edney

Eric Berry Edney (1913-2000) masanin dabbobi ne haifaffen Ingilishi.

An haifi Edney a Bognor Regis, kuma ya koma Rhodesia tare da danginsa tun yana yaro. Ya yi makarantar kwana da kwaleji a Bulawayo. Edney ya sami digirin farko na kimiyya daga Kwalejin Jami’ar Rhodes a shekarar 1933. Ya koma Ingila don karatun digiri, kuma an ba shi Diploma na Kwalejin Imperial da Ph.D. a Jami'ar London a shekarar 1936. Edney ya yi aiki a National Museum of Southern Rhodesia har zuwa shekara ta 1940, lokacin da ya karɓi muƙamin malami mai koyar da ilmin halitta a Kwalejin Makerere. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, Edney ya yi aiki a Rundunar Tsaro ta Uganda. Daga shekarun 1946 zuwa 1955, ya yi aiki a lokaci guda a matsayin malami a fannin ilimin dabbobi da karatu a fannin ilimin dabbobi a Jami'ar Birmingham, yayin da kuma ya sami D.Sc. daga wannan ma'aikata. Tsakanin shekarun 1955 zuwa 1965, Edney ya koyar a Kwalejin Jami'ar Rhodesia da Nyasaland, a matsayin jagoran kafa na sashen nazarin dabbobi. Daga baya ya koma Amurka, yana koyarwa a Jami'ar California, Riverside har zuwa shekara ta 1972, da kuma Jami'ar California, Los Angeles har zuwa shekara ta 1979. A cikin ritaya, Edney ya koma Vancouver, kuma ya ɗauki matsayin girmamawa a Jami'ar British Columbia. Binciken ciwon macular degeneration ya ƙare aikinsa na bincike. A tsawon lokacin aikinsa, Edney ya sami kyautar Guggenheim Fellowship a shekarar 1968, kuma ya zaɓi ɗan'uwan Royal Entomological Society, Cibiyar Nazarin Halittar Halitta, da Ƙungiyar Amirka don Ci gaban Kimiyya. Edney ya mutu a Vancouver a ranar 28 ga watan Mayu 2000, yana da shekaru 86.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2000
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1913