John Edmund Sharrock Moore ARCS (10 May 1870 – 15 January 1947) was an English biologist, best known for being co-publisher of the term meiosis and leading two expeditions to Tanganyika.
Born at Swinshaw near Loveclough, Rossendale, Lancashire, he was the son of Henry (1821–1907) and Mary Elizabeth Moore (née Margerison, 1832–1878).
His father became a sculptor, as did his sister Esther Mary Moore who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
[2] Moore studied at Tonbridge School, Kent for a year[2] and then the Royal College of Science in South Kensington.
After a long retirement he died of heart failure and arteriosclerosis in West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance on 15 January 1947.
[2] The first was between 16 October 1893 and 9 June 1894 to the Marine Biological Station in Naples, using facilities hired by the British Association and in part supported by a Marshall scholarship.
[2] In 1906 he was appointed the Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology and Director of the Cancer Research Laboratories at the University of Liverpool, retiring in 1908.