!!Robert McNeill Alexander - Curriculum vitae
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[Obituary|http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/03/robert-mcneill-alexander-zoologist---obituary], The Telegraph
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__Qualifications:	__		
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*B.A. Cambridge				1955
*Ph.D. Cambridge				1958
*M.A. Cambridge				1959
*D.Sc. Wales					1969
*Fellow of the Institute of Biology		1969
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__Posts:__				
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*University College of North Wales
**Assistant Lecturer				1958-61
**Lecturer					1961-68
**Senior Lecturer				1968-69
*University of Leeds
**Emeritus Professor				1999-
**Research Professor				1999-2007
**Professor of Zoology				1969-1999
**Head of Department of Pure and Applied Zoology  1969-1978 and	1983-1987
**Deputy Head of Department of Pure and Applied Biology	 1987-1992
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__Honours:__			
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*Minor (1952) and later Major (1953) Scholar, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
*Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London 1969
*Linnean Medal for Zoology, Linnean Society of London 1979
*Harris Memorial Lecturer, University of Bristol, 1980
*Honorary Member, American Society of Zoologists (now the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology), 1986
*Woolmer Memorial Lecturer, Biological Engineering Society, 1986
*William Smith lecturer, Geological Society, 1987
*Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1987
*Barrington Memorial Lecturer, University of Nottingham, 1991 
*Bidder lecturer, Society for Experimental Biology, 1991
*Muybridge Medal, International Society for Biomechanics, 1991
*Alley Memorial Lecturer, University of Iowa, 1994  		
*Member, Academia Europaea, 1996
*Palaeontological Society Annual Address, 1996
*Huxley Lecturer, University of Birmingham, 1997
*Distinguished Lecturer in Biomechanical Engineering, Stanford 	University, 1997
*Symposium in Robert McNeill Alexander's honour at the Main Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, subsequently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, 1999.
*Robert McNeill Alexander's successor at Leeds University, Professor J. M. V. Rayner, is given the title Alexander Professor of Zoology, 1999
*Pearl Memorial Lecturer, Human Biology Association, 2000
*Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in The Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2000.
*Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001.
*Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Aberdeen, 2002.
*Samuel Haughton Lecturer, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 2003.
*Honorary doctorate, University of Wageningen, 2003.
*Honorary Fellow, Zoological Society of London, 2003.
*Borelli Award, American Society for Biomechanics, 2003.
*Member, European Academy of Sciences, 2004.
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__Committees:__			
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*Society for Experimental Biology,
**Member of Council 1966-68
**Vice-President 1993-95
**President 1995-97 
*Science Research Council, Biological Sciences Committee 
**member of Advisory Group III	1972-74
**chairman of Advisory Group III 1974-77
**member of Biological Sciences
**Committee 1974-77
*Royal Society -
**Government Grant Board G 1979-82
**Government Grant Board H 1991-94
**Sectional Committee 7 1987-89
**Sectional Committee 9	1989-90, 1998-2001
**(chairman 1999-  )
**Education Committee 1988-89
**Chairman, Biological Education Committee 1988-89
**Soiree Committee 1989-93
**Editorial Board, Phil. Trans. B 1989-94
**Editorial Board, Proceedings B 1994-97
**Editor, Proceedings B	1998-2004
**Research Fellowships Panel Bii 1994-96
**Publications Management Committee 1995-2004
*Zoological Society of London -
**Publications Committee 1983-88
**Awards Committee 1984-99
**Council 1988-91
**Vice-President 1990-91
**Secretary 1992-99
*Secondary Examinations Council 18+ Biology Committee 1984-86
*National Committee for Biophysics 1985-90
*Zoology Liaison Group (Heads of University Zoology Depts.) 1986-88
*Adviser, Association of Commonwealth Universities 1983-89			
*University of London, Standing Panel of Experts in Biology 1981-			
*Chairman of Advisory Board, McGraw-Hill/IBiS project   1991-2	         	      	
*Chairman of Biodiversity Consortium, Teaching and Learning Technology Programme 1992-8			
*Honorary Council Member Rural Buildings Preservation Trust 1994-2001			
*Honorary Research Associate, City of Leeds Museum 1994-		
*President, International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists 1997-2001			
*Director, Biosis UK 1999-2003
*Chairman of the Advisory Group, Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience, 2001-2003.		 
*Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Virtual School of Biodiversity, University of Nottingham, 2001-2003.
**Member, Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology Advisory Committee, 2001-
*Visiting Professorships, for periods of a few weeks or months each
**Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology 1973
*Duke University, Department of Zoology	1975
*University of Nairobi, Department of Animal Physiology	1976, 1977, 1978
*Zoological Institute, University of Basel 1986
*St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia 1990
*University of California, Davis  1992