Pere Alberch
{{short description|Spanish naturalist, biologist and embryologist}}
{{distinguish|text=the composer Pere Alberch Vila}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Pere Alberch Vie
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1954|11|2}}
| birth_place = Badalona (Barcelona), Spain
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1998|3|13|1954|11|2}}
| death_place = Madrid, Spain
| fields = Embryology
| alma_mater = University of Kansas
University of California
}}
Pere Alberch Vie (2 November 1954, Badalona – 13 March 1998, Madrid) was a Spanish naturalist, biologist and embryologist. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1980 to 1989, and director of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. He studied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas (1976) and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1980).
Biography
In 1976 he graduated after studying Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kansas. Four years later he obtained a PhD in Zoology at the University of California. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as both a biology professor at Harvard University and as a curator of herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. He worked as an editor for magazines such as Trends in Ecology and Evolution (since 1993), Biodiversity Letters (since 1992), Journal of Theoretical Biology (since 1985) and Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1986-1991). In 1989 he returned to Spain as a research professor for the Spanish National Research Council and carried out an important role as director of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. In 1998 the Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutional Biology, a new research center located in Valencia, was interested in including Alberch to its staff. He died on March 13, 1998, at the age of 43.
Works
- {{cite journal | last1 = Alberch | first1 = P. | last2 = Gould | first2 = S. J. | last3 = Oster | first3 = G. F. | last4 = Wake | first4 = D. B. | year = 1979 | title = Size and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny | journal = Paleobiology | volume = 5 | issue = 3| pages = 296–317 | doi=10.1017/s0094837300006588| bibcode = 1979Pbio....5..296A | s2cid = 83795042 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Alberch | first1 = P. | last2 = Alberch | first2 = J. | year = 1981 | title = Heterochronic mechanisms of morphological diversification and evolutionary change in the neotropical salamander, Bolitoglossa occidentalis (Amphibia; Plethodontidae) | journal = Journal of Morphology| volume = 167 | issue = 2| pages = 249–264 | doi=10.1002/jmor.1051670208| pmid = 30119585 | s2cid = 52031237 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Odell | first1 = G. | last2 = Oster | first2 = G. F. | last3 = Alberch | first3 = P. | last4 = Burnside | first4 = B. | year = 1981 | title = The mechanical basis of morphogenesis. I. A mechanical model of epithelial tissue folding and certain gastrulation patterns | journal = Developmental Biology| volume = 85 | issue = 2| pages = 446–462 | doi=10.1016/0012-1606(81)90276-1| pmid = 7196351 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Oster | first1 = G. F. | last2 = Alberch | first2 = P. | year = 1982 | title = Evolution and bifurcation of developmental programs | journal = Evolution | volume = 36 | issue = 3| pages = 444–459 | doi=10.1111/j.1558-5646.1982.tb05066.x| pmid = 28568040 | doi-access = }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Alberch | first1 = P. | last2 = Gale | first2 = E. | year = 1985 | title = A developmental analysis of an evolutionary trend: Digital reductions in amphibians | journal = Evolution | volume = 39 | issue = 1| pages = 8–23 | doi=10.2307/2408513| pmid = 28563634 | jstor = 2408513 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Alberch | first1 = P | year = 1985 | title = Problems with the interpretation of developmental sequences | journal = Systematic Zoology | volume = 34 | issue = 1| pages = 46–58 | doi=10.2307/2413344| jstor = 2413344 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Maynard Smith | first1 = J. | last2 = Burian | first2 = R. | last3 = Kauffman | first3 = S. | last4 = Alberch | first4 = P. | last5 = Campbell | first5 = J. | last6 = Goodwin | first6 = B. | last7 = Lande | first7 = R. | last8 = Raup | first8 = D. | last9 = Wolpert | first9 = L. | year = 1985 | title = Developmental Constraints and Evolution: A Perspective from the Mountain Lake Conference on Development and Evolution| journal = The Quarterly Review of Biology| volume = 60 | issue = 3| pages = 265–287 | doi=10.1086/414425| s2cid = 85201850 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Shubin | first1 = N.H. | last2 = Alberch | first2 = P. | chapter = A Morphogenetic Approach to the Origin and Basic Organization of the Tetrapod Limb | year = 1986 | title = Evolutionary Biology | doi = 10.1007/978-1-4615-6983-1_6 | journal = Journal of Evolutionary Biology | volume = 20 | pages = 319–387 | isbn = 978-1-4615-6985-5 }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Oster | first1 = G. F. | last2 = Shubin | first2 = N. | last3 = Murray | first3 = J. D | last4 = Alberch | first4 = P. | year = 1988 | title = Evolution and morphogenetic rules. The shape of the vertebrate limb in ontogeny and phylogeny | journal = Evolution | volume = 42 | issue = 5| pages = 862–884 | doi=10.2307/2408905| jstor = 2408905 | pmid = 28581162 }}
References
- {{cite journal|last1=Renzi|first1=M. De|last2=Moya|last3=Pereto|title=Evolution, development and complexity in Pere Alberch (1954-1998)|journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology|date=1999|volume=12|issue=3|pages=624–626|doi=10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00073.x|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|last=Wake|first=David B.|year=198|title=Pere Alberch (1954-1998)|journal=Nature|volume=393|issue=6686|page=632|url=http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/wake/1998_Nature_AlberchObit.pdf|doi=10.1038/31364|pmid=9641674|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|first=Miquel|last= De Renzi| title=Recordando a Pere Alberch, biólogo evolutivo|journal=Noticias Paleontológicas (Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología)|volume=31|date=May 1998|language=es|url=http://www.uv.es/pardomv/np/np31/np31_09.html}}
- {{cite journal|title=Pere Alberch, 1954-1998|first1=Alfredo|last1= Salvador |first2=Borja|last2= Sanchiz|journal=Copeia|volume=1998|number= 4|year=1998|pages= 1122–1124|jstor=1447375}}
- {{cite journal|first1=M. J.|last1= Blanco|first2= B.|last2= Sanchiz|year=1998|title=La trayectoria científica de Pere Alberch Vié (1954-1998)|journal=Graellsia|volume=53|pages=177–182| url=http://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/view/371/363|language=es}}
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