H. W. Harvey
| Hildebrand Harvey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey 31 December 1887 |
| Died | 26 November 1970 (aged 82) |
| Institutions |
University of Cambridge Marine Biological Association |
| Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
| Notable awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Alexander Agassiz Medal (1952) CBE |
Dr Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey CBE FRS[1] (born 31 December 1887, Streatham, London, died Plymouth, Devon, 26 November 1970) was an English marine biologist.[2][3][4]
Background
Harvey was the elder son of Henry Allington Harvey, a partner in the firm of Foster, Mason and Hervey, of Mitcham, Surrey, paint manufacturers, and his wife, Laetitia, who was a daughter of Peter Kingsley Wolfe and a descendant of General James Wolfe, hero of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Education
After attending Gresham's School, Holt, from 1902 to 1906, he went on to study at Downing College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences.
War service
During World War I Harvey served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He navigated minesweepers and patrol vessels.
Career
In 1921 he joined the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth as a hydrographical assistant. His early work was on the oceanography of the western English Channel.
In 1928 he published a monograph on the chemistry and physics of sea water, and in 1933 a classic paper on the rate of diatom growth. With three colleagues he wrote a seminal paper on plankton and its control.
The National Marine Biological Library at the Marine Biological Association retain some of Harvey's scientific notebooks and records, including data sheets and notes on hydrographic observations.[5][6]
Publications
Harvey's published work includes:
- The Action of Poisons upon Chlamydomonas and other vegetable Cells (1909)
- Note on the Surface Electric Charges of Living Cells (1911)
- On Manganese in Sea and Fresh Waters
- Hydrography of the Mouth of the English Channel (1929–1932)
- Über das Kohlensäuresystem im Meerwasser by Kurt Buch, H. W. Harvey, H. Wattenberg, and S. Gripenberg (Conseil Perm. Internat. p. l'Explor. de la Mer, Rapp. et Proc.-Verb. (v. 79, 1932)
- Note on Colloidal Ferric Hydroxide in Sea Water (1937)
- Note on Selective Feeding by Calanus (1937)
- Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Biology of Sea Water (Cambridge University Press, 1945)
- On the production of living matter in the sea off Plymouth (Journal of the Marine Biological Association, 1950)[7]
- The Chemistry and Fertility of Sea Waters (Cambridge University Press, 1966)
Honours and awards
In 1952 he received the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In recommending the award, the Murray committee said:
- H. W. Harvey has been the leading student for many years of the changes in the chemical constituents of sea water brought about through the agencies of plants and animals and also of how the availability of nutrient chemicals determines the fertility of the sea.
Harvey was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942.[1] His candidacy read:
"Distinguished for his fruitful studies concerning the factors which control the production of life in the sea. He has carried out extensive researches on the role of nitrates and other inorganic constituents of sea water both under laboratory and natural conditions. He has also developed highly valuable and original methods for the qualitative estimation of phytoplankton. All this work has added greatly to our knowledge of the general cycles of marine life."[8]
Harvey was also awarded
Personal life
In 1923 he married Elsie Marguerite Sanders, but they later divorced. In 1933 he married secondly Marjorie Joan Sarjeant, and they had one son.
References
- 1 2 3 Cooper, L. H. N. (1972). "Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey 1887-1970". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 18: 330. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1972.0011.
- ↑ L.H.N. Cooper (2004). "Harvey, Hildebrand Wolfe". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33747.
- ↑ Biological Oceanography: an early history 1870-1960 by E.L. Mills (Cornell University Press, 1989)
- ↑ Alexander Agassiz Medal
- ↑ The H. W. Heape papers in the MBA Archive Collection: http://www.mba.ac.uk/NMBL/archives/archives_personal/personal_papers.htm#harvey
- ↑ Cooper, L. H. N. (2009). "Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 52 (3): 773. doi:10.1017/S0025315400021706.
- ↑ Harvey, H. W. (2009). "On the production of living matter in the sea off Plymouth". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 29: 97. doi:10.1017/S002531540005623X.
- ↑ "Library and Archive Catalogue". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
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