John Arnold Lovern

Dr John Arnold Lovern FRIC FRSE OBE (b.1905) was a Scottish marine biologist and scientific author.

Life

He was born in England on 27 May 1906. He studied Science at Liverpool University and continued as a postgraduate, gaining both a PhD and DSc. He became Director of the Torry Marine Research Station near Aberdeen.

In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ogilvy Kermack, George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, and James Robert Matthews]]. Lovern resigned in 1970.[1]

Publications

  • Fat Metabolism in Fishes
  • Variation in the Chemical Composition of Herring (1938) with Dr Henry Wood
    The Chemistry of Lipids (1955)

References

  1. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.



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