John William Sutton Pringle 5172074 152346803 2007-08-19T23:46:39Z SmackBot 433328 Defaultsort for people stubs (and/or gen fixes) Sir '''John William Sutton Pringle''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] ([[1912]]–[[1982]]) was a British [[zoology|zoologist]]. His research interests were in insect physiology, especially proprioception, flight muscle, and cicada song. Pringle studied at [[King's College, Cambridge]] where he took a first class degree in the [[Natural Sciences Tripos]]. He was appointed Demonstrator in Zoology at [[Cambridge University]], 1937–1938, and Fellow of King's College, 1938–1944. After war service in [[radar]] he returned to Cambridge as Lecturer in Zoology and fellow of [[Peterhouse]]. In 1959 he was appointed Reader in Experimental Cytology. In 1961 he moved to the [[Linacre Chair of Zoology]] at [[Oxford University]]. He was elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1954. ==External links== * [http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0603pringle.html Papers and correspondence] {{DEFAULTSORT:Pringle, John William Sutton}} [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:1912 births]] [[Category:1982 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Fellows of King's College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge]] {{UK-scientist-stub}} {{zoologist-stub}} [[de:John William Sutton Pringle]]