Tom Fenchel
Tom Fenchel · Science & Medicine
Danish ecologist of microbial life and biogeochemistry; FMRS
1940, Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark
Tom Fenchel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Danish ecologist of microbial life and biogeochemistry; FMRS
Fenchel is a Danish marine ecologist whose research illuminated the roles and population biology of microbial life, including the 'microbial loop' of carbon cycling and biogeochemistry in aquatic ecosystems. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and formulated 'Fenchel's law' relating reproductive rate to body size. He is listed in a Jewish-scientists index; his published biographies do not document a Jewish background.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews elected to Foreign Membership of the British Royal Society
Danish ecologist of microbial life and biogeochemistry; FMRS
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews elected to Foreign Membership of the British Royal Society
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