Person
Pearson, John Carwadine (1927 - 2011)
- Born
- 1927
Toronto, Canada - Died
- October 2011
- Occupation
- Parasitologist
Summary
John Pearson was an international authority on digenean trematodes and wrote seminal papers on their taxonomy, phylogeny and life cycles. On moving to the University of Queensland after completing his PhD, Pearson continued to work on diplostome trematodes while also studying the highly diverse but largely unknown heterophyids, parasitic on native birds and rats. It was in the revision of sections of the Heterophyidae (usually tiny and always difficult) that Pearson made his most important contributions to taxonomy. He collected widely in Australia and Southeast Asia. In 1994 he donated his collection of over 3,200 specimens of digenean and monogenean parasites of fish and bird to the Queensland Museum.
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Chronology
- 1950
- Education - BA (Hons), University of Toronto, Canada
- 1951
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Toronto, Canada
- 1954
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Toronto, Canada
- 1956
- Career position - Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy and Parasitology, University of Queensland
- 1972
- Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Queensland
- 1978 - 1984
- Career position - Editor, Queensland naturalist
- 1986 - 1992
- Career position - Professor of Helminthology (Personal Chair), University of Queensland
- 1989 - 2011
- Award - Fellow, Australian Society for Parasitology
- 1992
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Queensland
- 1992
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Angel, L. Madeline and Pearson, J. C., 'Dicrocoeliid trematodes from Australian hosts', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 101 (5) (1977), 115-32. Details
- Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D., 'Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 53 (2007), 1-156. Details
- Cribb, Tom, 'Profile: John Carwadine Pearson', Systematic Parasitology, 27 (1994), 237-8. Details
Resources
- 'Pearson, John Carwadine (1927-20111031)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772674. Details
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