Alister Hardy

Alister Hardy worked in marine biology, biology, zoology, religion and spirituality.

He was employed by University of Oxford, University of Hull and University of Aberdeen. Recorded positions include Linacre Professor of Zoology and Regius Professor of Natural History. He belonged to Royal Society.

17 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1794 to 1998.

Great Waters. The divine flame. The Biology Of God A Scientists Study Of Man The Religious Animal. The challence of chance. Challenge of chance. The significance of religious experience. The open sea. The Honorable Sir Henry Gould, dated 1794, mezzotint on ivory wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1994.822. A Gaiety Girl, dated n.d., color lithograph on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2013.1142. Handkerchief (Incomplete), dated 1901/25, cotton and linen, machine-made tape with cotton, needle lace filling; on cotton, plain weave; printed; glazed pattern, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1982.1465. Alister Hardy<i>The Spiritual Nature of Man</i>, dated 1979-1980, held by Wellcome Collection. Hardy, Alister C, dated Apr-Jun 1954, held by Wellcome Collection. The spiritual nature of man : a study of contemporary religious experience / by Alister Hardy., dated 1979, held by Wellcome Collection. Larval forms, and other zoological verses / Walter Garstang ; with an introduction by Sir Alister Hardy and a foreword by Michael LaBarbera., dated 1985, held by Wellcome Collection. The cosmic game : explorations of the frontiers of human consciousness / Stanislav Grof., dated [1998], held by Wellcome Collection. Evolution as a process / edited by Julian Huxley, A.C. Hardy, E.B. Ford., dated 1954, held by Wellcome Collection. El proceso de toda evolución biológica / compilación de Julian Huxley, A.C. Hardy, E.B. Ford ; traducción del ingles por Faustino Cordón., dated [1958], held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 18 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering (1896–1985), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2018. Aquagenesis: Alister Hardy, Elaine Morgan and the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis, Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution, 2011. Sir Alister Hardy, Learning for Living, 1970. Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering (1896–1985), zoologist and investigator of religious experience, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. Great Waters, by Alister Hardy. Collins, 63s., Oryx, 1968. Reviews, Zygon, 1982. Mismatch between marine plankton range movements and the velocity of climate change, Nature Communications, 2017. Report on the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Standards Workshop: SCAR Expert Group on CPR Research, Antarctic Record, 2011. Report on the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Standards Workshop 2016: SCAR SO-CPR Database Expert Group, Antarctic Record, 2017. Biogeochemical variations at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain sustained Observatory in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, from weekly to inter-annual timescales, Biogeosciences, 2015. Biogeography of key mesozooplankton species in the North Atlantic and egg production of <i>Calanus finmarchicus</i>, Earth System Science Data, 2015. From microbes to macrofauna: an integrated study of deep benthic communities and their response to environmental variables along the Malta Escarpment (Ionian Sea), Scientia Marina, 2013. The ethical and spiritual project of Martin Prozesky: Influences and interests, Journal for the Study of Religion, 2018.

19 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive, DataCite (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)), DataCite (Axiom Data Science), DataCite (Plymouth University), DataCite (The Marine Biological Association of the UK, CPR Survey), DataCite (PANGAEA) and DataCite (Ocean Biogeographic Information System).

The Living Stream (1965) — Internet Archive. The Divine Flame: An Essay Towarsd A Natural History of Religion (1966) — Internet Archive. Great Waters; a Voyage of Natural History to Study Whales, Plankton, and the Waters of the Southern Ocean (1968) — Internet Archive. FISH & FISHERIES (1959) — Internet Archive. Alister Hardy - The Living Stream_Evolution And Man (1965) — Internet Archive. The Open Sea (1970) — Internet Archive. Theopen sea (1958) — Internet Archive. the open sea: it's natural history (1965) — Internet Archive. The Open Sea: Its Natural History Part One: The World of Plankton (1972) — Internet Archive. Great Waters (1967) — Internet Archive. THE OPEN SEA II FISH AND FISHERIES No 37. (1959) — Internet Archive. Near-surface abundance information for phytoplankton and zooplankton in the Mid-Atlantic bight determined from surveys made by the continuous plankton recorder from 2014 to 2017 (2023) — DataCite (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)). Continuous Plankton Recorder Data, Phytoplankton Data Set; N Pacific CPR sampling 2009; Batten, S. (2025) — DataCite (Axiom Data Science). Continuous Plankton Recorder Data, Phytoplankton Data Set; Transect from Vancouver, Canada to Japan, 2000 to 2008; Batten, S. (2025) — DataCite (Axiom Data Science). DEPRECATED: Investigation of microplastic debris in marine surface waters using different sampling methods (2015) — DataCite (Plymouth University). Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey (CPR Survey) (2019) — DataCite (The Marine Biological Association of the UK, CPR Survey). Fladen Ground Artica islandica increment widths, stable carbon geochemistry and herring recruitment reconstruction (2019) — DataCite (PANGAEA). Investigation of microplastic debris in marine surface waters using different sampling methods (2015) — DataCite (Plymouth University). Continuous Plankton Recorder database (2015) — DataCite (Ocean Biogeographic Information System).

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)) and 18 deposited research records (DataCite Commons). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 8 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 8 means 8 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Alister Hardy studied at Exeter College and Oundle School. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is marine biology, biology and zoology.

Employment is recorded with University of Oxford, University of Hull and University of Aberdeen. Positions recorded include Linacre Professor of Zoology and Regius Professor of Natural History. Membership is recorded of Royal Society.

Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society, Templeton Prize and Knight Bachelor.