Geoffrey Beale
Geoffrey Herbert Beale 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.