Clifford H. Mortimer

Clifford Hiley Mortimer (27 February 1911 - 11 May 2010) was the recipient of the 1995 A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award.

Career and research

He held the role of Director of the Scottish Marine Biological Station at Millport, Scotland. In 1970 Mortimer became President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and three years later, President of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. In 1966 he became Distinguished Professor of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and founding Director of a newly formed Center for Great Lakes Studies.

Publications

In 2005 he co-authored ‘Internal Seiche Dynamics in Lake Geneva’ and a year later, ‘Inertial Oscillations and Related Internal Beat Pulsations and Surges in Lakes Michigan and Ontario.’

Awards

Mortimer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1958. In 1995 he received the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award for his "lasting and substantive contributions across disciplines of aquatic biology, chemistry and physics, his leadership, and his general commitment to excellence." At this time, a special symposium was held in his honor.

Personal life

He married German citizen Ingeborg Closs (Professor Max Hartmann’s niece) and they had two daughters: Christine and Alison.