Gordon Elliott Elliott Podensky

Background

FOGG, Gordon was born on April 26, 1919 in Langar, Notts. Son of Reverend Leslie Charles Fogg and Doris Mary Fogg (nee Elliott).

Education

Bachelor of Science, Queen Mary College, London, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, St. John's College, Cambridge, England, 1943. Doctor of Science, St. John's College, Cambridge, England, 1966.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Dundee, Scotland, 1974.

Career

During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algae used to make water-soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea. He also worked on pest control for Pest Control Ltd at Harston. In 1945 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, and then Reader in Botany at University College, London (until 1960).

He was then made Professor of Botany at Westfield College, London (1960–1971) and then Professor of Marine Biology, University College of North Wales (1971–1985). He specialised in cyanobacteria, algal cultures and phytoplankton. Professor Fogg wrote important foundational texts on the latter two : The Metabolism of Algae (Methuen, 1954) and Algal Cultures and Phytoplankton Ecology (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966).

He was President of the British Phycological Society (1961–1962), Chairman of the British Antarctic Survey Scientific Advisory Committee (1971–1964), Chairman of the Freshwater Biological Association Council (1974–1985), Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Panel, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1974–1982) and President of the Institute of Biology (1976–1977). He also sat on the Council of NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) and on the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He died in Llandegfan, Anglesey in 2005.

Achievements

• He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in Mar, 1965
  
  He delivered the Leeuwenhoek Lecture to the Royal Society in 1968.
  
  He was awarded CBE in 1983.
  
  Fogg Highland in Antarctica is named after him.

Works

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  • A History of Antarctic Science (Studies in Polar Research)

    (This book is the first to describe the development of sci...)

  • The Explorations of Antarctica: The Last Unspoilt Continent

    (Antarctica is the last unspoilt continent, a landmass wit...)

  • Blue-green Algae

    (The Blue-Green Algae attempts to assemble a unified pictu...)

  • The Biology of Polar Habitats (Biology of Habitats Series)

    (The polar regions can be hostile to life but are sometime...)

  • Algal Cultures and Phytoplankton Ecology, 1966, 126 pages with 31 figures and 6 tables.

    (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)

  • The Biology of Polar Habitats (Biology of Habitats) by Fogg, G. E. (1998) Paperback
  • Algal Cultures and Phytoplankton Ecology by G. E. Fogg (1965-12-01)
  • Algal Cultures and Phytoplankton Ecology by G. E. Fogg (1986-09-30)
  • A History of Antarctic Science (Studies in Polar Research) by G. E. Fogg (2005-06-30)

Membership

Member Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, London, 1979-1985. Trustee British Museum Natural History, London, 1976-1985, Royal Botanic Gardens, London,1 983-89. Fellow: Institute of Biology (president 1976-1977), Royal Society London (council member 1980-1982).

Member: Athenaeum, Antarctic, Society Experimental Biology (secretary 1957-1960), Freshwater Biological Association (chairman council 1974-1985), Marine Biological Association (governor 1972-1999), British Phycol. Society (president 1961-1962).

Interests

• Watercolour painting, walking, listening to music, photography.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Beryl Jones, July 7, 1945. Children: Elizabeth Helen, Timothy Dolben.