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John Krebs

The Lord Krebs
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John Krebs as a Hamilton lecturer at the 14th Behavioral Ecology Congress in Lund, Sweden (August 2012)
Born (1945-04-11) 11 April 1945 (age 71)
Fields Ornithology
Ethology
Institutions University of Oxford
NERC
Food Standards Agency
University of British Columbia
University College of North Wales
Alma mater Pembroke College, Oxford
Thesis A study of territorial behaviour in the Great tit Parus major L. (1970)
Influences Nikolaas Tinbergen
Konrad Lorenz
Notable awards Knight Bachelor (1999)
Frink Medal (1996)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1984)
DPhil (1970)
Spouse Sarah Phibbs
Children Emma Helen; Georgina Claire
Website
www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/fellows-and-staff/fellows/lord-krebs

John Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs, FRS (born 11 April 1945, Sheffield, England) is an English zoologist researching in the field of behavioural ecology of birds. He was the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 2007 until 2015. Lord Krebs is currently President of the British Science Association.

The son of Hans Adolf Krebs, the German biochemist who described the uptake and release of energy in cells (the Krebs cycle), John Krebs was educated at the City of Oxford High School, and Pembroke College, Oxford where he obtained a BA degree in 1966, upgraded to an MA degree in 1970, and received a DPhil degree in 1970. He then held posts at the University of British Columbia and the University College of North Wales, before returning to Oxford as a University Lecturer in Zoology, with a fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, then Pembroke. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. and since 1988 has held a Royal Society Research Professorship in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, where he was based at Pembroke College until his appointment to the position of Principal of Jesus College in 2005. Krebs was knighted in 1999 and was the first Chairman of the British Food Standards Agency (2000–2005).


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