Sanford Sterling Munro

Sanford Sterling Munro FRSE FSA (20 May 1908–June 1971) was a 20th-century Canadian zoologist and geneticist.

Life

He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick on 20 May 1908 the son of Voloma Blanche Smith and her husband, David Munro.[1]

He studied zoology at McGill University and specialised in poultry genetics. He began working for the Canadian Department of Agriculture in Ottawa and was involved in the Canadian Experimental Farm System.

Around 1935 he went to work in the Institute of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh, in Great Britain. Here he worked under Francis Albert Eley Crew and alongside Alan William Greenwood.[2]

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Francis Albert Eley Crew, Alan William Greenwood, Alexander Aitken, and Lancelot Hogben. He resigned from the Society in 1948.[3] The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) during his stay in the city.

He returned to America in 1948.

He died in Des Moines, Iowa in USA in June 1971 aged 63.[1]

Family

He was married to Dorothea Irene Spears. Their children included the political aide S. Sterling Munro Jr.

References
  1. "Sanford Sterling Munro, Sr". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  2. Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology: Bibliographic Service 1936
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.


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