Gordon Elliott Fogg

Gordon Elliott Fogg CBE FRS (26 April 1919 – 30 January 2005)[1] was a British biologist.

During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algae used to make water-soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea.

During his time at University College he supervised Joanna M. Kain who obtained her doctorate in 1957.

Professor Fogg wrote important foundational texts on the latter two : The Metabolism of Algae (Methuen, 1954) and Algal Cultures and Phytoplankton Ecology (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966).

From 1953 - 1960 he was a co-editor and author of the successful popular science series from Penguin New Biology.