Geoffrey Beale

Professor Geoffrey Beale MBE FRS FRSE
Royal Society Research Professor, University of Edinburgh
In office 1963–1978
Personal details
Born	Geoffrey Herbert Beale 11 June 1913 Wandsworth, London, England
Died	16 October 2009(2009-10-16) (aged 96)
Occupation	Geneticist

Geoffrey Herbert Beale (11 June 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a British geneticist. He founded the Protozoan Genetics Unit, at University of Edinburgh.

Life

He grew up in Wandsworth, London, and attended Sutton Grammar School. Influenced by The Science of Life edited by H. G. Wells, he took life sciences as a direction. He earned a first-class honours degree, from Imperial College London, in 1935, and PhD in 1938. He worked at the John Innes Institute, with J. B. S. Haldane.

In World War II, he served in the Intelligence Corps, at the British mission to Murmansk. He worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Family

He married Betty; they had three sons (Andrew, Stephen and Duncan).