Richard Frankham

Richard (Dick) Frankham (born April 4, 1942) is an Australian biologist, author, and academic. He is an Emeritus Professor in Biology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Frankham's research interests are primarily in the evolutionary genetics of small populations, spanning the fields of quantitative genetics, animal breeding, conservation genetics, and conservation biology. He is the senior author of five textbooks, including ''Introduction to Conservation Genetics'' in 2002. ''A Primer of Conservation Genetics'' in 2004, ''Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations'' in 2017, and ''A Practical Guide for Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations'' in 2019. There have been five translations of their textbooks into Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Korean.

He is the recipient of the M.J.D. White Medal of the Genetics Society of Australasia for his career contributions, a Ulysses S. Seal Award for Innovation in Conservation from CPSG and a Whitley Special Commendation for his books on conservation Provided by Wikipedia