Helen Battle Award

Prix Helen Battle

Biography - Biographie

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 Founding member and Vice-President 1961

• President 1962-1963. Presidential address "Zoology in Canada inretrospect"

• Honorary Member 1967

• F. E. J. Fry Medal 1977. Address "A saga of zoology in Canada"

• Helen Battle Award named 1991

• Born August 31, 1903 London, Ontario Died June 17, 1994

•  B.A. Honours Biology University of Western Ontario 1923

• M.A. University of Western Ontario 1924

• Ph.D. University of Toronto 1928. Supervisor A.G. Huntsman.

•  University of Western Ontario faculty member 1921-1967; Acting Head Department of Zoology 1956-1958.

•  Research on the embryology of fish, much of it done at the Atlantic Biological Station, St. Andrews, N.B.

 Honours:

• Canadian Centennial Medal 1967

• Honorary Doctorate Carleton University 1971

• Honorary Doctorate University of Western Ontario 1971

• J.C.B. Grant Award of the Canadian Association of Anatomists

 References

 McMillan, D.B. 1992 Helen Irene Battle CSZ Bull. 23(1): 9.

 Millar, J.S. 1994 Helen Irene Battle - 1903-1994 CSZ Bull. 25(3): 65