Keith Vickerman

Keith Vickerman
FRS FRSE FMedSci
Born(1933-03-21)21 March 1933
Huddersfield, Yorkshire
Died28 June 2016(2016-06-28) (aged 83)
SpouseMoira Dutton
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Linnean Medal (1906)
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Glasgow
Academic work
Main interests
Natural history, Zoology, Parasitology

Keith Vickerman was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members.

Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that antigenic variation could occur in eukaryotic cells, namely in protozoa.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cox, Francis (November 2017). "Obituary of Professor Keith Vickerman FRS: 1931–2016". Parasitology. 144 (13): 1841–1843. doi:10.1017/S0031182017000403. ISSN 0031-1820.
  2. ↑ ‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 12 July 2013