Background
CLOUDSLEY-Thompson, John was born on May 23, 1921 in. Murree, India. Son of A. G. G. Thompson and Muriel Elaine (nee Griffiths) Thompson.
CLOUDSLEY-Thompson, John was born on May 23, 1921 in. Murree, India. Son of A. G. G. Thompson and Muriel Elaine (nee Griffiths) Thompson.
Marlborough College, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Lecturer in zoology, King"s College, University of London 1950-1960. Professor, of Zoology, University of Khartoum and Keeper, Sudan Natural History Museum 1960-1971. Professor, of Zoology, Birkbeck College, University of London 1972-1986, Professor Emeritus since 1986.
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 1987-1989.
Visiting Professor University of Kuwait 1978, 1983, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1981, University of Qatar 1986. Chairman British Naturalists’ Association 1974-1983, Viee-President 1985.
Chairman Biological Council 1977-1982. President British Arachnological Society 1982-1985, British Society for Chronobiology 1985-1987.
Vice-President Linnean Society 1975-1976, 1977-1978.
Spiders, Scorpions, Centipedes and Mites 1958, Animal Behaviour 1960, Rythmic Activity in Animal Physiology and Behaviour 1961, Animal Conflict and Adaptation 1965, Animal Twilight 1967, Zoology of Tropical Africa 1969, The Temperature and Water Relations of Reptiles 1971, Desert Life 1974, Terrestrial Environments 1975, Insects and History 1976, Man and the Biology of Arid Zones 1977. The Desert 1977, Animal Migration 1978, Biological Clocks 1980, Tooth and Claw 1980, Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods 1988, Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles 1991: Nile Quest (novel) 1991.
Royal African Society 1969 (Medal 1969), British Herpetological Society 1983.