Peter Sneath
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,[1] revised in 1973 as Numerical taxonomy.[2] Sneath reviewed the state of numerical taxonomy in 1995[3] and wrote some autobiographical notes in 2010.[4]
References
- ^ Sneath, Peter H. A.; Sokal, Robert R. (1963). Principles of numerical taxonomy (7 ed.). San Francisco: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0716706210.
- ^ Sneath, Peter H. A.; Sokal, Robert R. (1973). Numerical taxonomy the principles and practice of numerical classification. San Francisco: Freeman. ISBN 0716706970.
- ^ Sneath, P. H. A. (1995). "Thirty Years of Numerical Taxonomy". Systematic Biology 44 (3): 281. doi:10.1093/sysbio/44.3.281. edit
- ^ Sneath, P. H. A. (2010). "Reflections on microbial systematics". The Bulletin of BISMiS 1 (1): 77–83.
- "SNEATH, Prof. Peter Henry Andrews", Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2010 ; online edn, October 2010 accessed 14 Sept 2011 (subscription required)
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