Professor John Guest Phillips Federal Reserve System FZS was an eminent Biologist.
Background
He was born in Swansea and educated at Llanelli Boys" Grammar School and the University of Liverpool. Where, after gaining his Bachelor of Science, he joined the research group of Chester Jones to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in endocrinology.
Career
Following his doctorate he took up a fellowship at the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University with Grace East. Pickford. After a lectureship at Sheffield University Phillips was appointed to the Chair of Zoology at the University of Hong Kong. He returned to the United Kingdom to become Professor of Zoology, from 1967-1979, and Dean of the Faculty of Science (1978-1980) at the University of Hull, Director of the Wolfson Institute for Gerontology (1979-1986) (located at the University of Hull) and later Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1986-1987.
He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London.
Phillips" research was predominantly in the fields of endocrinology, notably concerning the salt glands of sea birds, and the biological basis of ageing (gerontology).
Membership
Royal Society; Zoological Society of London.