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David J. Patterson (Born April 19, 1950, Belfast, Northern Ireland).(Ph.D. 1976; D.Sc. 1990) is a biologist.
He was awarded the Thomas Henry Huxley prize and the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London; has been President of the British Section of the Society of Protozoologists, President of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology and Vice-President of the (International) Society of Protozoology. He was Head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, was Co-secretariat General of the 10th International Congress of Protozoology held in Sydney in 1997; has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Biological Resources Study; serves on the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. Working with his colleagues at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, he is now responsible for the informatics aspects of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Qualifications
- B.Sc. (First class) Queen's University, Belfast (1971)
- Ph.D., University of Bristol (1976)
- D.Sc., Queen's University, Belfast (1990)
