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Hodges, B
Person · fl 1948

Seasonal Helper at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
Hodgson, Brian Houghton
Hodgson, Brian Houghton
Person · 1800-1894

Brian Houghton Hodgson is widely recognised for the great progress he made in describing the birds and mammals of Nepal. He wrote more than 140 zoological papers, ranging from descriptions of single species to checklists of the fauna, and presented ZSL with his manuscript notes and drawings
Hodgson, Tony
Person · 1939-1961

Helper and later Keeper in the Reptile House
Hofman, Professor Dr R R
Person · fl 1992

Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Universitat Giessen in Germany
Hogben, Lancelot Thomas
Person · 1895-1975

Lancelot Thomas Hogben was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenic movement in the middle of his career, and popularised books on science, mathematics and language in his later career
Holdgate, Martin Wyatt, Sir
Person · 1931-

Sir Martin Wyatt Holdgate was born in 1931 and grew up in Blackpool. He was educated as Arnold School. He then attended Cambridge University as an undergraduate at Queens' College, Cambridge from 1949, graduating in 1952 with degrees in zoology and botany and, subsequently, a doctorate in insect physiology.

He taught at Manchester University, Durham University and Cambridge, as well as undertaking expeditions to Tristan da Cunha, south-west Chile and the Antarctic. He was CHief Biologist to the British Antarctic Survey, then research director of the Nature Conservancy Council and, for eighteen years, Chief Scientist and head of research at the Department of the Environment. Subsequently, he was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. After his retirement he was a member of the Royal Commission on Environment Pollution and served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests, and Secretary of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Board on Sustainable Development. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1994-2004.