Hugh Edwin Strickland
1811
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1853
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Oriel College
occupation: ornithologist, zoologist, geologist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society
Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as the Strickland Code, that was a precursor of later codes for nomenclature. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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