Keith Vickerman

{{short description|British zoologist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}

{{Infobox academic

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRS|FRSE|FMedSci}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|03|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Huddersfield, Yorkshire

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|06|28|1933|03|21|df=y}}

| nationality = British

| spouse = Moira Dutton

| main_interests = Natural history, Zoology, Parasitology

| alma_mater = University of Glasgow

| awards = Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Linnean Medal (1906)

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Keith Vickerman was a British zoologist born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.{{Cite journal|last=Cox|first=Francis|date=November 2017|title=Obituary of Professor Keith Vickerman FRS: 1931–2016|journal=Parasitology|language=en|volume=144|issue=13|pages=1841–1843|doi=10.1017/S0031182017000403|issn=0031-1820|doi-access=free}} He was Regius Professor of Zoology in the University of Glasgow, 1984–98.‘VICKERMAN, Prof. Keith’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U41103, accessed 12 July 2013] He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1996. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, he was one of the organization's founding members.

Vickerman was the one who made the discovery that antigenic variation could occur in eukaryotic cells, namely in protozoa.