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Welsh poet and author

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John Edmund Sharrock Moore was an English biologist, best known for being co-publisher of the term meiosis and leading two expeditions to Tanganyika.

In 1904 he married Heloise Salvin, second daughter of the naturalist Osbert Salvin. Moore frequently used the name Salvin-Moore after his marriage. They had one child Osbert John Salvin Moore.

Although he is often cited as John Edward Sharrock Moore, he used several versions of his name.

In 1900 he was appointed as a Demonstrator in Zoology at the Royal College of Science. He became an acting Professor of Zoology there from 1903 to 1905. In 1906 he was appointed the Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology and Director of the Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, retiring in 1908.

He was the first to be awarded the Huxley Gold Medal for Research, in 1900 by Royal College of Science. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society from 1901, the Linnean Society and the Zoological Society of London

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