Two Chch scientists elected fellows

Press, 18 May 1984, Page 4

Two Chch scientists elected fellows

Two Christchurch scientists have been elected fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Dr Peter H. Fitzgerald, of the cytogenetics unit at Christchurch Hospital, and Dr David G. Lloyd, of the botany department at the University of Canterbury, are two of five scientists elected to the society at its annual meeting this month. Dr Fitzgerald is the director of leukaemia research for the Cancer Society of New Zealand’s cytogenetics unit at the hospital. He was one of the pioneers in the development of the science of cytogenetics, in which alterations in human chromosomes are related to genetic disease and can-

cerous changes. Dr Lloyd is renowned for his research in the fields of taxonomy and population biology, with particular reference to the operation, genetics, and evolution of sexual conditions in plants." In 1981, he was elected president of the New Zealand Genetics Society. The remaining new fellows are Professor David Christoffel, associate professor of physics at Victoria University of Wellington; Dr Robert McDowall, of the fisheries research division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; and Dr Warren R. Roper, Associate Professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Auckland.