Researching Alexander Nicholson
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The name Alexander means "Helper and defender of mankind" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Alexander Nicholson on Ancestry
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Some Famous People called Alexander Nicholson
Alexander Malcolm Nicholson
Alexander Malcolm "Sandy" Nicholson (November 25, 1900 – October 12, 1991) was a Canadian clergyman, farmer and politician.
He was born in Lucknow, Ontario, the son of Alexander Nicholson and Isabelle MacDonald, and was educated in Lucknow and at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1928, Nicholson married Marian Leila Massey.
Nicholson served as a United Church of Canada minister at Hudson Bay Junction, Saskatchewan and had a farm in Sturgis, Saskatchewan. He became an organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1935, became the national treasurer of the party in 1942 and from 1944 to 1950 and served as a CCF Member of Parliament from 1940 to 1949 and again from 1953 until his defeat in 1958. He then served as a CCF-NDP member of the Saskatchewan legislature in the 1960s. From 1960 until 1964 he was the province's Minister of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation. He continued as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) until his defeat in the 1967 provincial election.
Source: Alexander Malcolm Nicholson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlexander John Nicholson
Alexander John Nicholson (25 March 1895 – 28 October 1969) was an Irish Australian entomologist who specialized in insect population dynamics. He was Chief of the CSIR / CSIRO Division of Economic Entomology for 24 years and is credited with initiating the professional era in Australian entomology. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
ExperimentsHe performed his experiments of population dynamics on the Sheep blowfly. The interesting thing about sheep blowfly females is that they must receive a meal before laying eggs near the tail or by exposed wounds. Next, the maggots hatch from the eggs, feeding on flesh of the sheep which makes them grow bigger. The sheep possibly die when the maggots penetrate the skin and feed on their internal organs. Due to the need of a meal for blowfly females to lay eggs, density dependence effects on their populations was studied by Nicholson.
Findings and ConclusionsIn Nicholson's first experiment he gave an abundance of food to the adult blowflies so females could lay eggs, therefore leading to a massive amount of eggs laid. Then he made sure maggots only had 50 grams of food per day. So after the eggs hatched almost all of the maggots died prior to adulthood. This led to a decline in adult populations and then the population reached such low numbers that the eggs actually produced had ample food to reach adulthood. Hence, the adult population rose again, creating a constant cycle . In the second experiment he limited the amount of food for both maggots and adults. This resulted in a population increase until it hit the carrying capacity . This experiment exhibited the effects of density dependence on population.
He is notable for the Nicholson–Bailey model.
Source: Alexander John Nicholson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Nicholson
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