Edward Alfred Minchin

Edward Alfred Minchin FRS FLS FZS (26 February 1866 – 30 September 1915) was a British zoologist who specialised in the study of sponges and Protozoa. He became Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London in 1899, Chair of Protozoology at the University of London in 1906, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911.

Edward Alfred Minchin
Born(1866-02-26)26 February 1866
Weston-super-Mare
Died30 September 1915(1915-09-30) (aged 49)
Selsey
NationalityBritish
Alma materKeble College, Oxford
Known forPorifera Trypanosomes
SpouseFlorence Maude Fontain (m. 1903)
Scientific career
Fields
  • Zoology
  • Protozoology
  • Parasitology
  • Parasitology
  • Microscopy
Institutions
  • Oxford University
  • University College London
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