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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2024-02-06 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005614b.htm person Cannon Lester Robert Glen AACR2 4 September 1940 Place of Birth St Neot's, Huntingdon, United Kingdom Parasitologist Lester Cannon worked on trematodes in fish, ascaridoid worms on fish and molluscs, the Crown of Thorns Starfish and other parasites before being appointed to the Queensland Museum as Curator of Lower Invertebrates. He was the only Curator in any Australian museum with parasitological training. As curator Cannon built up the parasitology collections such that the Queensland Museum now has one of the world's most significant such collections. In 1995 he negotiated for the WHO's International Reference Centre for Avian Haematazoa to be deposited at the Museum. Other collections transferred to Brisbane during Cannon's tenure include that of the School of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, the University of Sydney, and of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. He was highly successful in encouraging international experts to visit the Queensland Museum to study these collections. Cannon was instrumental in the development of the Australian Society for Parasitology Information on Collections (ASPIC), the database of Australian parasitology collections. In his research Cannon described one new family, 15 new genera and many new species. The turbellarian sub-family Cannoninae Faubel & Rohde was named in his honour. 1950 1950 Life event - Family migrated to Australia 1965 1965 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Queensland 1970 1970 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Toronto, Canada 1970 1971 Career position - Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. 1971 1973 Career position - Queen's Fellowship in marine science, Department Parasitology, University of Queensland 1976 2003 Career position - Curator of Lower Invertebrates (later Senior Curator: Worms), Queensland Museum 1977 1979 Career position - Treasurer, Great Barrier Reef Committee 1991 1991 Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Biology 1996 1996 Career position - Convenor, 8th International Symposium of the Biology of Turbellaria, Brisbane 1999 1999 Award - Fellow, Australian Society for Parasitology 2003 2003 Life event - Retired 2004 2004 Award - Queensland Museum Medal Great Barrier Reef Committee (1922 - 1982)

Treasurer 1977 - 1979

 Australian Society for Parasitology Inc (1964 - )

Elected Fellow, 1999

 Queensland Museum

Curator of Lower Invertebrates (later Senior Curator: Worms), 1976 - 2003

 Queensland Museum Medal (1987 - )

Awarded the Medal 2004

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 Cannon, L R G (19400904-)

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 'Cannon, Lester Robert Glen', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cannon, Lester Robert Glen Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D. Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors 2007 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature 53 1-156 Journal Article: The study of turbellarians (Platyhelminthes) at the Queensland Museum Angus, B. M. The study of turbellarians (Platyhelminthes) at the Queensland Museum 2007 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 53 1 157-85