| LC control no. | n 87828099 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gates, R. Ruggles (Reginald Ruggles), 1882-1962 |
| Variant(s) | Gates, Reginald Ruggles, 1882-1962 |
| Associated country | Canada Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1882-05-01 |
| Death date | 1962-08-12 |
| Place of birth | Middleton (N.S.) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Cytology Botany Human genetics Physical anthropology Race |
| Affiliation | Bedford College Mount Allison University Cornell University McGill University University of Chicago Woods Hole Marine Biological Station Kings College London Royal Society (Great Britain Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain) Linnean Society of London Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Profession or occupation | Naturalists Biologists |
| Found in | LCCN 49-5655: His Pedigrees of Negro families, 1949 (hdg.: Gates, Reginald Ruggles, 1882-1962) LC data base, 4-27-87 (hdg.: Gates, Reginald Ruggles, 1882-1962) LCCN 30-8991: His Heredity in man, 1929 (hdg.: Gates, Reginald Ruggles, 1882-1962; usage: R. Ruggles Gates) The Royal Society website, Obituary: Reginald Ruggles Gates, 1882-1962, 1 November 1964, viewed September 2, 2021: page 83 (died in London on 12 August 1962, age 80; born 1 May 1882 near Middleton, Nova Scotia) page 84 (graduated in 1903 from Mount Allison University, Sackville, Nova Scotia; also took an undergraduate course on fungi at Cornell University) page 85 (spent a year at McGill University, 1903-1904, studying botany and zoology, along with geology and organic chemistry; Vice-Principal of Middleton High School the following year, teaching and doing naturalist exploration of the surrounding countryside; studied cytology; spent summers at Woods Hole Marine Biological Station, the third one via a University of Chicago fellowship) page 87 (Ph.D. 1908, University of Chicago; lecturer in cytology, Department of Zoology, Bedford College; came to England in 1911, continuing botanical research, laboratory of Farmer at the Imperial College of Science; lecturer in Biology, St Thomas's Hospital, 1912-1914) page 88 (appointed Reader, Botany Department, King's College, London, 1919; elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1931) page 90 (his second major field of activity was human genetics, especially as applied to anthropology; published Heredity and eugenics (1923; from the time of his retirement from Chair at King's College, the majority of his writings were concerned with human genetics and anthropology) page 91 (author of Race crossing, 1960; Pedigrees of negro families, 1949) page 97 (first Secretary of the Society of Experimental Biology; Secretary, President and Honorary Fellow, Linnean Society; Vice-President, Royal Anthropological Institute) <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1964.0006> |
| Associated language | eng |
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