Tom Fenchel

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Tom Fenchel

FRS
Born (1940-03-19) 19 March 1940 (age 83)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Awards
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Scientific career
Thesis The ecology of marine microbenthos IV : structure and function of the benthic ecosystem, its chemical and physical factors and the microfauna communities with special reference to the ciliated protozoa  (1969)
Website www1.bio.ku.dk/english/research/marinebiology/staff/?pure=en%2Fpersons%2F105357

Tom Michael Fenchel (born 19 March 1940, in Copenhagen) is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist [1] and known for, among other things, Fenchel's Law.

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Education

Fenchel holds PhD (1964) and Doctor of Science (1969) degrees, both from the University of Copenhagen.

Awards and honours

He is a foreign member of the Royal Society [2] and a reviewing editor of the scientific journal Science. [3] He was the 1986 recipient of the ECI Prize of ecology and wrote the book [4] in the ECI Prize laureate series Excellence in Ecology. He served as president 2004-2008 of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (he has been a member since 1976). In 2006 he was awarded the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters [5] and of the American National Academy of Sciences [6]

The standard author abbreviation Fenchel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [7]

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References

  1. ISI Highly Cited [ dead link ]
  2. "Tom Fenchel | Royal Society".
  3. Science Editorial Board Archived August 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Ecology - Potentials and Limitations (1987) Full text
  5. "Gruppe 5: Biologi" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  6. "Newly elected foreign associates". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  7. International Plant Names Index.  Fenchel.