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Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow (21 October 1942 – 19 March 2021), was a professor of evolutionary biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.
Thomas Cavalier-Smith (* 21. Oktober 1942; † 19. März 2021 [1]) war ein britischer Biologe. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautete „ Caval.-Sm. “. Cavalier-Smith war Professor für Evolutionsbiologie an der Universität Oxford .
10. Mai 2021 · A tribute to the polymath of cellular evolution who shaped understanding of the tree of life. Learn about his contributions to the study of protists, endosymbiosis, eukaryotes, prokaryotes and genome structure.
- Thomas Richards
- 2021
Thomas Cavalier-Smith, one of the most prolific evolutionary biologists of the last century, passed away on March 19 th, 2021. Tom’s interests were vast. He tackled topics ranging from the origins of the first cell and the evolution of genome and cell architectures to the origins, phylogeny, and classification of all major lineages in the ...
- Andrew J. Roger
- 2021
7. Dez. 2023 · Thomas Cavalier-Smith, born in London, U.K., on October 21, 1942, was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford at the time of his death on March 19, 2021.
Thomas Cavalier-Smith was a professor of botany and evolutionary biologist who reclassified the Kingdoms of Life. He studied protists, chromosomes, centrosomes and cilia with the electron microscope and worked at Cambridge, Rockefeller and Oxford.
As a committed systematist, his schemes included classifi cations of the relevant lineages, and he changed these rapidly in response to new data. Tom was equal parts brilliant, encyclopedic, opinionated, and iconoclastic. He was not afraid to advance bold hypotheses even when data were scarce.
