Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian
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▪ 1995
British entomologist (b. April 17, 1899, Kirkham, Lancashire, England—d. Feb. 11?, 1994, Cambridge, England), pioneered in the study of insect physiology; he was particularly respected for his research into the role of hormones in insect growth, metamorphosis, and reproduction and for his insights into simple mechanisms, such as how insects walk upside down. Wigglesworth was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He received his medical qualification at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, but a research project into cockroaches (and later into other medically important insects) led him to change careers. Wigglesworth was lecturer in medical entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1926-45), reader in entomology (1945-52) and later Quick professor of biology (1952-66) at Cambridge, and founding director of the Agricultural Research Council Unit of Insect Physiology (1943-67). He published some 300 papers and half a dozen books, most notably Insect Physiology (1934), The Principles of Insect Physiology (1939), The Physiology of Insect Metamorphosis (1954), and Insect Hormones (1970). He was elected to the Royal Society in 1939, made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, and knighted in 1964.
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