George Matthai
George Matthai (13 November 1887 – 22 June 1947) was an Indian zoologist who specialized in marine biology, contributing to the systematics of Madreporarian (now Scleractinia) corals. He was a professor of zoology at the Panjab University in Lahore.
Life and career
[edit]He returned to India in 1918 and worked at the department of zoology at the Panjab University, Lahore. He received a ScD from the University of Cambridge in 1929. He succeeded Lt. Col. J. Stephenson in 1919 and his retirement in 1942 was postponed to 1945 due to the war.[1][2]
Matthai married Mary Chandy, daughter of C. Chandy of the Mysore Civil Service and later vice chancellor of Mysore University, in 1925. They had a son, Ariel, and after her death in 1931, Matthai married Rosalinda Hedwig in 1935. Matthai was elected Fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1921, as well as the Linnean Society.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Sewell, R. B. Seymour (1947). "Prof. G. Matthai". Nature. 160 (4056): 116. Bibcode:1947Natur.160..116S. doi:10.1038/160116c0.
- ^ Sharma, G. P. (1947). "George Matthai (1887 - 1947)" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy. 14 (15).
- ^ Sewell, R.B. Seymour (1947). "Obituaries". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 159 (2): 159–161. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1947.tb00495.x.
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