John Arnold Lovern

He was born in England on 27 May 1906. He studied Science at Liverpool University and continued as a postgraduate, gaining both a PhD and a DSc. He became Director of the Torry Marine Research Station near Aberdeen.

In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ogilvy Kermack, George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, and James Robert Matthews. Lovern resigned in 1970.^[1]

• Fat Metabolism in Fishes
• Variation in the Chemical Composition of Herring (1938) with Dr Henry Wood
• The Chemistry of Lipids (1955)