Alexander Steven Corbet (8 August 1896 – 16 May 1948) was a British chemist and naturalist.
He was educated at Bournemouth and the University of Reading where he received a PhD in inorganic chemistry.
[1][2] In the late 1920s he and his wife, Irene (nee Trewavas), moved to Kuala Lumpur where Alexander worked as a soil microbiologist for the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya.
[3] In 1931 he and his family returned to the UK and Alexander worked at the ICI research station at Jealotts Hill.
Both of his adult children acquired his interest in entomology: his son Philip Steven Corbet became an authority on dragonflies and his daughter Sarah Alexandra Corbet is an authority on British bumble bees and plant pollination.