John Arnold Lovern

Dr John Arnold Lovern FRIC FRSE OBE (b.1905) was a Scottish marine biologist and scientific author.

Life

He was born in England on 27 May 1906. He studied Science at Liverpool University and continued as a postgraduate, gaining both a PhD and DSc. He became Director of the Torry Marine Research Station near Aberdeen.

In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ogilvy Kermack, George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, and James Robert Matthews]]. Lovern resigned in 1970.[1]

Publications

• Fat Metabolism in Fishes
• Variation in the Chemical Composition of Herring (1938) with Dr Henry Wood

  The Chemistry of Lipids (1955)

References

1. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.