English marine biologist
Norman John ("Jack") Berrill FRS FRSC [1] marine biologist . He was born in Bristol and received his BSc degree from the University of Bristol in 1924 and his PhD (1929) and DSc (1931) from University College London . In 1928, he joined the faculty of McGill University in Montreal, where, from 1946 to 1965, he was Strathcona Professor of Zoology.[2] Fellow of the Royal Society .[3] Royal Society of Canada (1936) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1978).[4]
Berrill wrote numerous books, including both works of popular science which were compared by some reviewers to books by Rachel Carson and Loren Eiseley , as well as textbooks and scientific monographs. Two of his titles, Man's Emerging Mind and Sex and the Nature of Things , won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction .[5] tunicata is the definitive work on the subject.[4]
Berrill received honorary doctorates from the universities of Windsor (1968), British Columbia (1972) and McGill (1973).[4]
Berrill was married twice and had three children, raising his first child as a single parent after his first wife died. He co-wrote two books with his son and his second wife.[4]
Selected works The Tunicata, with an account of the British species (Ray Society , 1950)The Living Tide (Dodd, Mead, 1951)Journey into Wonder (Dodd, Mead, 1952)Sex and the Nature of Things (Dodd, Mead, 1953), winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction The Origin of Vertebrates (Clarendon Press, 1955)Man's Emerging Mind Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction 1001 Questions Answered about the Seashore You and the Universe (Dodd, Mead, 1958)Growth, Development and Pattern (W.H. Freeman, 1961)Worlds Without End (Macmillan, 1964)Inherit the Earth (Dodd, Mead, 1966)Biology In Action: A Beginning College Textbook (Dodd, Mead, 1966)The Life of the Ocean (McGraw-Hill, 1966)The Person in the Womb (McGraw-Hill, 1968)The Life of Sea Islands (with Michael Berrill) (McGraw-Hill, 1969)Developmental Biology (McGraw-Hill, 1971)References
^ BERRILL, Prof. Norman John (subscription required) , Who Was Who , A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)^ N.J. Berrill biography, Encyclopædia Britannica Archived 30 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine ^ "Royal Society List of Fellows, 1660-2007, A-J" . Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2014 .^ a b c d Obituary at the Royal Society website ^ Stover, David (2010). Introduction to the Wynford Edition of Man's Emerging Mind . Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press.
1930s 1940s
J. F. C. Wright , Slava Bohu (1940)Emily Carr , Klee Wyck Bruce Hutchison , The Unknown Country (1942)Edgar McInnis , The Unguarded Frontier (1942)E. K. Brown , On Canadian Poetry (1943)John Robins , The Incomplete Anglers (1943)Dorothy Duncan , Partner in Three Worlds (1944)Edgar McInnis , The War: Fourth Year (1944)Ross Munro , Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)Evelyn M. Richardson , We Keep a Light (1945)Frederick Phillip Grove , In Search of Myself (1946)Arthur R. M. Lower , Colony to Nation (1946)William Sclater , Haida (1947)Robert MacGregor Dawson , The Government of Canada (1947)Thomas Head Raddall , Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)C. P. Stacey , The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)Hugh MacLennan , Cross-country (1949)Robert MacGregor Dawson , Democratic Government in Canada (1949) 1950s
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , The Saskatchewan (1950)W. L. Morton , The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
Josephine Phelan , The Ardent Exile (1951)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)Bruce Hutchison , The Incredible Canadian (1952)J. M. S. Careless , Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)N. J. Berrill , Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)Hugh MacLennan , Thirty and Three (1954)Arthur R. M. Lower , This Most Famous Stream (1954)N. J. Berrill , Man's Emerging Mind (1955)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North (1956)Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny (1957)Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)Pierre Berton , Klondike (1958)Joyce Hemlow , The History of Fanny Burney (1958)[No award] (1959) 1960s 1970s
[No award] (1970)
Pierre Berton , The Last Spike [No award] (1972)
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
Charles Ritchie , The Siren Years (1974)Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson , Hallowed Walls (1975)Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
F. R. Scott , Essays on the Constitution (1977)Roger Caron , Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars Maria Tippett , Emily Carr (1979)Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe (1979)Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism (1979) 1980s
Jeffrey Simpson , Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)George Calef , Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)Christopher Moore , Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)Jeffery Williams , Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (1983)Sandra Gwyn , The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)Ramsay Cook , The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (1985)Northrop Frye , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)Michael Ignatieff , The Russian Album (1987)Anne Collins , In the Sleep Room (1988)Robert Calder , Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989) 1990s
Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times (1990)Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)Maggie Siggins , Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)Karen Connelly , Touch the Dragon (1993)John Livingston , Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)Rosemary Sullivan , Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)John Ralston Saul , The Unconscious Civilization (1996)Rachel Manley , Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)David Adams Richards , Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998)Marq de Villiers , Water (1999) 2000s
Nega Mezlekia , Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Ingenuity Gap Andrew Nikiforuk , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (2002)Margaret MacMillan , Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Roméo Dallaire , Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (2005)Ross King , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)Karolyn Smardz Frost , I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007)Christie Blatchford , Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)M. G. Vassanji , A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009) 2010s
Allan Casey , Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)Ross King , Leonardo and the Last Supper Sandra Djwa , Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)Michael John Harris , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)Mark L. Winston , Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)Bill Waiser , A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)Graeme Wood , The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (2017)Darrel J. McLeod , Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)Don Gillmor , To the River: Losing My Brother (2019) 2020s
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