Professor G.M. Hughes (1925-2011)
Professor of Zoology, Bristol University, 1965 – 85, then Emeritus

George Morgan Hughes, born 1925, son of James Williams Hughes and Edith May Hughes
married 1954, Jean Rosemary, daughter of Rowland Wynne Frazier and Jessie Frazier

two sons John Morgan Hughes, b 1956; Richard David Morgan Hughes, b 1965
one daughter Deborah Rosemary Frazier Hughes, b 1960

Academic:

Liverpool Collegiate School

King’s College, Cambridge (Scholar)

• Martin Thackeray Studentship, 1946 – 48
• Frank Smart Prize, 1946

Cambridge University

• Demonstrator, 1950 – 55
• Lecturer, 1955 – 65
• successively Bye-Fellow, Research Fellow and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1949 – 65

University of Bristol

• Head of Department of Zoology, 1965 – 70
• Head of Research Unit for Comparative Animal Respiration, 1970 – 90

Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1958-59

Visiting Lecturer in Physiology, State University of New York, at Buffalo, 1964

Visiting Professor

• Duke University, 1969
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kochi, Kyoto, Kyushu and Hokkaido Universities, 1974
• University of Regensburg, 1977
• University of Bhagalpur, 1979
• Bretagne Occidentale, 1979
• Kuwait, 1983
• Nairobi, 1985

Invited Professor, National Institute of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, 1980

Honorary Professor, Univerersity of Wales College of Cardiff; 1991 – 1999

Member, International Cœlacanth Expedition, 1972

Publications:

• Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration, 1963
• (jointly) Physiology of Mammals and other Vertebrates, 1965
• (jointly) Air-breathing Fishes of India, 1992
• (editor) several symposium volumes; papers in Journal of Experimental Biology and other scientific journals, mainly on respiration of fishes

Complete listing of publications 1952-2003 of GM Hughes and Associates

Recreations:

          Travel, Welsh genealogy, photography

Sports:

          Hockey for Cambridge University, 1945, and Wales, 1952 – 53

Obituries:

          George Hughes, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, died recently at the age of 85. The School of Biological Sciences offers this tribute and condolences to his family.

Address:

          e-mail: c/o johnhughesmiee@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

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