E. B. Ford

Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a schoolboy Ford became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. In the wider world his best known work is Butterflies (1945).

23 April 1901

Born on the same birth day (23 April): Afonso II of Portugal • Albert Coates (musician) • Bobby Rosengarden • Chaeyoung • Chloe Kim • Folke Jansson • Frédéric Ozanam • Gigi Hadid • Jamie Hayter • Johann Friedrich Doles • John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford • Lenka Wienerová • Lucius D. Clay • Paul Belmondo • Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Stephen Dalton • Tayfur Havutçu • Tony Esposito • Tony Lupien • Willie Mitchell (ice hockey)

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