Nationality United Kingdom Name Peter Sneath Alma mater University of Cambridge Notable awards Royal Society Books Planets and Life | Known for numerical taxonomy Role Autobiographer Fields Microbiology Institution University of Leicester | |
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Born 17 November 1923 ( 1923-11-17 ) Institutions University of Leicester Thesis The bacterial genus Chromobacterium (1959) Died September 9, 2011, Leicestershire, United Kingdom | ||
Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS, MD (17 November 1923 – September 9, 2011) was a microbiologist who co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with Robert R. Sokal. Sneath and Sokal wrote Principles of Numerical Taxonomy, revised in 1973 as Numerical taxonomy. Sneath reviewed the state of numerical taxonomy in 1995 and wrote some autobiographical notes in 2010.
A special issue of the journal Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, on microbial systematics, is dedicated to the memory of Peter Sneath.
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