Wally Clark (zoologist)
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22 October 1927
Wally Clark | |
|---|---|
| Born | Walter Clive Clark 22 October 1927 Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Died | 21 November 2019 (aged 92) Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Imperial College, London |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Massey University University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | Systematic and morphological studies on some Enoplida Nematoda, with special reference to the soil fauna of New Zealand (1961) |
| Doctoral advisors | Bernard Peters Charles Potter |
| Doctoral students | Gregor Yeates |
Walter Clive Clark (22 October 1927 – 21 November 2019) was a New Zealand zoologist who specialised in the study of nematodes and pycnogonids. He was a professor at Massey University and later the University of Canterbury.
Born in Christchurch on 22 October 1927, Clark was the son of Clive Harold Clark and Ellen Martha Clark (née Baldwin).[1] He had his early education at Bruce Bay, where his academic potential was first recognised, before moving back to Christchurch about the end of 1942.[2] Clark later studied at Canterbury University College, graduating MSc with first-class honours in 1957.[1][3] He was an assistant lecturer in biology at Christchurch Teachers' College from 1954 to 1955 and an assistant lecturer in zoology at Canterbury from 1956 to 1957.[1] He was then a principal scientific officer in nematology in the entomology division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in Nelson from 1957 to 1964.[1] The DSIR supported Clark to undertake doctoral studies, and he completed a PhD at Imperial College London, supervised by Bernard Peters and Charles Potter, in 1961.[4] The title of his doctoral thesis was Systematic and morphological studies on some Enoplida Nematoda, with special reference to the soil fauna of New Zealand.[4]
