Godfrey M Hewitt | |
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Born | Worcester, England, U.K | 10 January 1940
Died | 18 February 2013 Cambridge, England, U.K | (aged 73)
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University of Birmingham University of California, Davis |
Known for | Influential work in evolutionary genetics, training and acting as a mentor to many academics |
Awards | Darwin–Wallace Medal (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Phylogeography, Hybridization, Speciation |
Institutions | University of East Anglia |
Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Mather, John Jinks, and Bernard John |
Doctoral students | Nick Barton[1] Richard Nichols[2] Michael Ritchie[3] |
Website | http://www.uea.ac.uk/biological-sciences/news/professor-godfrey-hewitt |
Godfrey Matthew Hewitt (10 January 1940 – 18 February 2013) was a British professor and evolutionary geneticist at the University of East Anglia who was very influential in the development of the fields of molecular ecology, phylogeography, speciation and hybridisation. [4]