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==Honours and Awards==
==Honours and Awards==
She was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in March 1948, one of the first women to receive this honour.<ref name="frs"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/ |title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007 |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=14 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324095152/http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/ |archive-date=March 24, 2010 }}</ref>. She was awarded a Gold Medal by the Linnean Society in 1963 and and honorary doctorate from the [[University of Lund]] in 1968 <ref name="The Girton Year"></ref>. [[The Zoological Society of London]] awarded her the [[Frink Medal]] in 1977 for "the advances made by her twoards the understanding of arthropod evolution."<ref name="The Girton Year"></ref>
She was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in March 1948, one of the first women to receive this honour.<ref name="frs"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/ |title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007 |publisher=The Royal Society |access-date=14 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324095152/http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/ |archive-date=March 24, 2010 }}</ref>. She was awarded a Gold Medal by the Linnean Society in 1963 and and honorary doctorate from the [[University of Lund]] in 1968 <ref name="The Girton Year"></ref>. The [[Zoological Society of London]] awarded her the [[Frink Medal]] in 1977 for "the advances made by her twoards the understanding of arthropod evolution."<ref name="The Girton Year"></ref>


In 1992, the [[Manton (crater)|Manton]] crater on [[Venus]] was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister [[Irene Manton]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sisters make their mark on Venus |journal=New Scientist |date=7 November 1992 |issue=1848 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618462-000-sisters-make-their-mark-on-venus/ |access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> In 2018 the [[British Ecological Society]] and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/13652656/features/sidnie_manton_prize|title=Sidnie Manton Award|website=besjournals|doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2656|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
In 1992, the [[Manton (crater)|Manton]] crater on [[Venus]] was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister [[Irene Manton]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sisters make their mark on Venus |journal=New Scientist |date=7 November 1992 |issue=1848 |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618462-000-sisters-make-their-mark-on-venus/ |access-date=2 June 2019}}</ref> In 2018 the [[British Ecological Society]] and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/13652656/features/sidnie_manton_prize|title=Sidnie Manton Award|website=besjournals|doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2656|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>

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Sidnie Manton
Born(1902-05-04)4 May 1902
Kensington, London
Died2 January 1979(1979-01-02) (aged 76)
NationalityBritish
EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge (Sc.D., 1934)
Known forContributions to zoology, marine biology
SpouseJohn Philip Harding (m. 1937)
AwardsMontifiore Prize (1925)
Linnean Gold Medal (1963)
Frink Medal (1977)
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology, zoology
InstitutionsGirton College, Cambridge

Sidnie Milana Manton, FLS[1] FRS[2] (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was an influential British zoologist. She is known for making advances in the field of functional morphology.[1][3] She is regarded as being one of the most outstanding zoologists of the twentieth century.[4]

Early life

Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a descendant of French aristocracy and a dentist. Her sister was the botanist Professor Irene Manton FRS. She was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School and at St. Paul's Girls' School before joining Girton College, Cambridge in 1921.[5] While at Girton College she was awarded the Montifiore Prize in 1925.[6]. She came top of the class list, but was not awarded the prize that that position usually brings, because women were not at that time officially members of Cambridge University [7].

Career

Manton initially worked as an Alfred Yarrow Research Student at Girton College, Cambridge, and later was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science (ScD) title from Cambridge University and the first woman to hold the post of Demonstrator in Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University [7]. She became Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Director of Studies in Geography and Lecturer. While at Cambridge University she worked on the evolution of the arthropods, publishing "The Arthropoda: Habits, Functional Morphology and Evolution" in 1977.[8]. She took part in a University expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in 1928-1929, which collected unprecedented data on the reef's ecology and health, data which are still in use today [9][7].

Manton died on 2 January 1979. Her archives are held at the Natural History Museum.[10], and a collection of her letters and Diaries were published in 2020 [9].

Honours and Awards

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1948, one of the first women to receive this honour.[2][11]. She was awarded a Gold Medal by the Linnean Society in 1963 and and honorary doctorate from the University of Lund in 1968 [7]. The Zoological Society of London awarded her the Frink Medal in 1977 for "the advances made by her twoards the understanding of arthropod evolution."[7]

In 1992, the Manton crater on Venus was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister Irene Manton.[12] In 2018 the British Ecological Society and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists.[13]

Personal life

Manton married John Philip Harding in 1937. They had one son and one daughter.

References

  1. ^ a b Blower, J. Gordon (March 1979). "Obituary: Sidnie Manton" (PDF). Nature. 278 (5703): 490–491. Bibcode:1979Natur.278..490B. doi:10.1038/278490b0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4260606.
  2. ^ a b Fryer, G. (1980). "Sidnie Milana Manton. 4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 26: 327–356. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1980.0010.
  3. ^ Fryer, G (1980-11-30). "Sidnie Milana Manton, 4 May 1902 - 2 January 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 26: 327–356. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1980.0010. ISSN 0080-4606.
  4. ^ "Dr Sidnie Manton". www.lib.cam.ac.uk. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  5. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. New York: Routledge. pp. 839–840. ISBN 0-415-92038-8. OCLC 40776839.
  6. ^ Toogood, Mark; Waterton, Claire; Heim, Wallace (April 2020). "Women scientists and the Freshwater Biological Association, 1929–1950". Archives of Natural History. 47 (1): 16–28. doi:10.3366/anh.2020.0618. ISSN 0260-9541.
  7. ^ a b c d e Clifford, Elizabeth (2021). "Charting a Vanishing World". The Year: Annual Review of Girton College: 27–31.
  8. ^ "Manton, Sidnie Milana". Online Encyclopedia. Net Industries. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  9. ^ a b Manton, Sidnie (2020). Clifford, Elizabeth (ed.). Letters and Diaries Expedition to the Great Barrier Reef 1928-1929. Independently published. ISBN 979-8692037558.
  10. ^ "The Papers of Sidnie Milana Manton (1902-1979)". nationalarchives.gov.uk. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  12. ^ "Sisters make their mark on Venus". New Scientist (1848). 7 November 1992. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Sidnie Manton Award". besjournals. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2656. Retrieved 2020-04-21.


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