Pearson, John Carwadine (1927 - 2011)

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. He donated his collection of over 3,200 specimens of digenean and monogenean parasites of fish and bird to the Queensland Museum in 1994.

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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

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

• 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