Sidnie Manton

Sidnie Milana Manton, FLS[1] FRS[2] (4 May 1902 – 2 January 1979) was a 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]

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)
Spouse(s)John Philip Harding (m. 1937)
AwardsLinnean Medal (1963)
Frink Medal (1977)
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology, zoology
InstitutionsGirton College, Cambridge

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]

Career

Manton joined Cambridge University and worked on the evolution of the arthropods, publishing "The Arthropoda: Habits, Functional Morphology and Evolution" in 1977.[7]

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1948.[2][8]

Manton died on 2 January 1979. Her archives are held at the Natural History Museum.[9]

In 1992, the Manton crater on Venus was named after Sidnie Manton and her sister Irene Manton.[10] In 2018 the British Ecological Society and the Journal of Animal Ecology inaugurated the Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists.[11]

Personal life

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

References
  1. 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. 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. "Manton, Sidnie Milana". Online Encyclopedia. Net Industries. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  8. "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". The Royal Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
  9. "The Papers of Sidnie Milana Manton (1902-1979)". nationalarchives.gov.uk. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  10. "Sisters make their mark on Venus". New Scientist (1848). 7 November 1992. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  11. "Sidnie Manton Award". besjournals. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2656. Retrieved 2020-04-21.


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