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Kenneth Hedley Lewis (Ken) Key (1911 – 2002) was a South African-born entomologist who made significant contributions to Australia's locust problems in the 1940s.[1][2][3][4]
- Born 28 August 1911, Cape Town, South Africa[2]
- University of Cape Town, where he gained a bachelor of science with medals in botany and zoology in 1930. He gained a master of science degree the following year, with a thesis on the grasshoppers of the Cape Peninsula.[3]
- PhD, Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London Department of Entomology, 1936.[3]
- arrived in Perth in 1936.[3]
- locust problem, CSIR Division of Economic Entomology. This work continued through World War II.[3]
- He was awarded a doctor of science degree by the University of London in 1946.[3]
- In 1959 the Division of Entomology decided to organise its haphazard collections of insects into a unified system. Key was appointed Curator of the collections, later Chief Curator. In 1962 the Federal Government declared the division’s Australian National Insect Collection ‘a great national heritage’.[3]
- Key retired from CSIRO in 1976 but continued his studies of grasshopper taxonomy and biology as an honorary research fellow until 1994.
- Died 11 January 2002[2]
- Occupation Entomologist[2]
- Kenneth Hedley L. Key was Chief Research Scientist, Division of Entomology, CSIRO.[2]
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1959.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dr Kenneth Hedley Lewis Key". Short citation at year of election (to Fellowship). Australian Academy of Science. 1959.
- ^ a b c d e f G.J. McCarthy (13 December 2006). "Key, Kenneth Hedley Lewis (1911-2002) FAA". Biographical entry. Encuclopaedia of Australian Science.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ken Key" (PDF). Australian Academy of Science Newsletter (52): 10–11. December 2001.
- ^ Key, K. H. L. (Kenneth Hedley Lewis) (1911-2002), trove.nla.gov.au