Edward Hindle FRS FRSE FIB FRGS FRPSG (21 March 1886–22 January 1973) was a British biologist and entomologist who was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow from 1935 to 1943.
[2] He was further educated at King's College London,[3] and after research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he gained a Ph.D at Berkeley University of California in 1910.
Hindle was Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow in succession to John Graham Kerr, and was curator of the Hunterian Museum from 1935 to 1943.
Among the talented scientists he invited to work in his department was Guido Pontecorvo, who returned to the university from internment as an enemy alien in 1942.
[4] Hindle retired from Regent's Park Zoo in 1951, when he also gave up his post as General Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
A minor achievement was that every golden hamster in Europe and elsewhere descends from two pairs found in Syria that Saul Adler gave him in 1931.