Max Hooper (naturalist)

{{Short description|English naturalist}}

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Max Dorien Hooper (20 November 1934 – 10 February 2017) was an English naturalist and the inventor of "Hooper's rule" (also called "Hooper's law"), which is used to estimate the age of a hedgerow.{{cite news|author=Peter Marren |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/09/max-hooper-obituary |title=Max Hooper obituary | Science |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2017-04-28}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/max-hooper-tr90q8nj0 |title=Max Hooper | Register | The Times & The Sunday Times |website=The Times |access-date=2017-04-28}}{{cite web|url=https://www.habitataid.co.uk/blog/2017/04/26/hoopers-hedges-history-hypothesis/ |title=Hooper's Hedgerow History Hypothesis |publisher=Habitat Aid |date=2017-04-13 |access-date=2017-04-28}}

He received the Peter Scott Memorial Award.{{cite web |url=https://bna-naturalists.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Scott-award.pdf |title=The Peter Scott Memorial Award |author= |website=bna-naturalists.org |publisher=British Naturalists' Association |access-date=21 June 2019 }}