Dr. John Arnold Lovern FRIC FRSE OBE (b.1905) was a Scottish marine biologist and scientific writer.
Life He was born in England on 27 May 1906. He studied Science at Liverpool University and continued as a postgraduate, gaining both a PhD and a DSc. He became Director of the Torry Marine Research Station near Aberdeen.
In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ogilvy Kermack, George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, and James Robert Matthews. Lovern resigned in 1970.
Publications Fat Metabolism in Fishes Variation in the Chemical Composition of Herring (1938) with Dr Henry Wood The Chemistry of Lipids (1955)
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