Donald I. Williamson

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Donald Irving Williamson was a British planktologist and carcinologist, born 1922-01-08, Alnham, Northumberland, England. He gained his first degree from the Durham University in 1942, his Ph.D. from the same university in 1948, and a D.Sc. from the Newcastle University in 1972. He worked at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory of the University of Liverpool from 1948 to 1997, and has published on the Irish Sea plankton, crustacean behaviour and taxonomy, crustacean larvae, the origins of larvae and hybridisation in evolution.