title: John Arnold Lovern
text: # John Arnold Lovern
  
  Dr John Arnold Lovern FRIC FRSE OBE (b.1905) was a Scottish marine biologist and scientific writer.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born in England on 27 May 1906. He studied Science at Liverpool University and continued as a postgraduate, gaining both a PhD and DSc. He became Director of the Torry Marine Research Station near Aberdeen.
  
  In 1960 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Ogilvy Kermack, George Adam Reay, David Cuthbertson, and James Robert Matthews. Lovern resigned in 1970.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Fat Metabolism in Fishes
  * Variation in the Chemical Composition of Herring (1938) with Dr Henry Wood
  