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John Edmund Sharrock Moore ARCS (10 May 1870 – 15 January 1947) was an English biologist, best known for leading two expeditions to Tanganyika. He is often cited as John Edward Sharrock Moore, and was listed in Who's Who (UK) as John Edmund Shorrock Moore-Salvin until 1954 ==Biography== Born at Swinshaw near Loveclough, Rossendale, Lancashire, John was the son of Henry Moore, Cotton Manufacturer and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison). After 1878 his father became a Colliery agent and moved the family to Southampton and then to Chiswick before 1891. His father became a Sculptor, as did his sister Esther Mary Moore who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. John studied at Tonbridge School, Kent and then Royal College of Science in South Kensington. In 1892 he created the biological term ‘synapsis’. Later in 1905 he would co-publisher the term ‘meiosis’. Between 16 October 1893 and 9 June 1894 he worked at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. He led the First and Second Tanganyika Expeditions (1894-1897 and 1899-1900). During the second expedition he was the first to reach the snowline of the Rwenzori Mountains, attaining 14,900 feet and proved the existence of permanent glaciers. He was awarded the Huxley Gold Medal for Research in 1900 by Royal College of Science. Appointed Demonstrator in Zoology at The Royal College of Science. In 1904 he married Heloise Salvin, daughter of naturalist Osbert Salvin. They had one child Osbert John S Moore born 25 June 1905. Appointed in 1906 as Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology at the University of Liverpool. He retired in 1908 after the death of his father. In 1911 he is living with his wife and son in Chiswick with four of his sisters. During the 1920s he moved to Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Heloise died on 4 Nov 1927. He died of heart failure and arteriosclerosis in West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance on 15 January 1947. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Edmund Sharrock Moore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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