Fry Medal

Médaille Fry

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Biography - Biographie

Canadian Society of Zoologists

• Founding Member 1961

• Councillor 1961-1965

• President 1966-1967

• Honorary Member 1974

• Fry Medal established 1974

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• Born 1908. Died May 13, 1989

• BA University of Toronto 1933

• MA University of Toronto 1935

• PhD University of Toronto 1936

• University of Toronto faculty member; Professor of Zoology 1956-1974

• Royal Canadian Air Force team of physiologists in aviation medicine 1941-1945

• Research: physiological ecology, population dynamics and management of stocks of fish.

• President American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 1951

• Guggenheim Fellow 1959

• Vice-President, International Association Pure and Applied Limnology 1962

• President American Fisheries Society 1966

• President American Institute Fishery Research Biologists 1972

Honors

• Medal of the British Empire 1944

• Fellow Royal Society of Canada 1948

• Wildlife Society of America, best publication in fisheries biology 1950

• Flavelle Medal 1962

• Canadian Centennial Medal 1968

• Commissioner, International Great Lakes Fishery Commission 1969 DSc University of Manitoba 1970

• American Fisheries Society Medal 1971

• DSc University of Toronto 1989

 

Reference

 Anon. 1989. F. E. J. Fry - An Obituary. CSZ Bull. 20(4): 22-23

F. E. J. Fry