CSZ - SCZ

Awards - Prix

Canadian Society of Zoologists Société canadienne de zoologie

Advancing the Study of Animals
and their Environment

Favoriser l'étude des animaux
et de leur environnement

Hoar Award

Prix Hoar


Biography - Biographie

Canadian Society of Zoologists

Founding member 1961

     Councillor 1961-1962

     Secretary/Treasurer 1962-1963

     Second Vice-President 1963-1964

     First F.E.J. Fry medal 1974. Address "Smolt transformation: evolution, behavior and physiology".

     Hoar Award renamed to honour him 1978

     Honorary member 1984

Born Moncton, New Brunswick.

     Trained University of Western Ontario and Boston Univesity

     University of New Brunswick faculty member

     University of British Columbia faculty member and Head, 1945-1979

     Editor Canadian Journal of Zoology

     Research physiology of fish; numerous publications including the text General and Comparative Physiology, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 815 pp, 1966.

 Chairman Organizing Committee Sixth International Congress of Comparative Endocrinology Banff, June 1971

Honors

     Fellow Royal Society of Canada

     Shinkishi Hatai Medal Pacific Science Congress 1991

 References:

 Hoar, W.S. 1976. Smolt transformation: evolution, behavior and physiology. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 33: 1233-1252.

 Randall, D. 1985. New Honorary Member CSZ Bull. 16(1): 6

 

William S. Hoar