Jack Heslop-Harrison
John "Jack" Heslop-Harrison (born February 10, 1920 in Middlesbrough , † May 7, 1998 in Leominster ) was a British botanist . Its botanical abbreviation is Hesl.-Harr.f.
Life
John Heslop-Harrison was one of the three children of botanist John William Heslop-Harrison and his wife Christian Henderson. He attended high school in Chester-le-Street and studied chemistry, physics and botany at King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later the University of Newcastle upon Tyne ). In 1941 he was drafted and initially worked as a radar technician on the Orkneys , then at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force with the assessment of German technical innovations.
After the war he was a lecturer in agricultural botany at the University of Durham, in 1946 he became a lecturer at Queen's University of Belfast , where he received his doctorate and from 1950 to William Harold Pearsall (1891-1964) at University College London as a lecturer . In 1953 he became a reader for taxonomy, went back to Queen's College in Belfast in 1954 and became professor of botany at the University of Birmingham in 1960 . In 1967 he became professor and director of the Institute for Plant Development (Plant Development) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .
From 1970 to 1976 he was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) . Since the British government was not prepared to provide the institute with sufficient funding, he resigned and became Royal Society Research Professor at Aberystwyth University . In 1985 he retired. He was married to the botanist Yolande Heslop-Harrison (nee Massey) since 1950 , with whom he also worked.
Awards
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1970), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982), and the National Academy of Sciences (1983). He received the Trail-Crisp Medal of the Linnean Society in 1967 , the Erdtman Medal for Palynology in 1971, the Darwin Medal in 1976 (with his wife Yolande Massey), the Linnaeus Medal in 1976, the Keith Medal , the Navaschin Medal of Komarov Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the Royal Medal in 1996. He gave the Croonian Lecture in 1974 (on The physiology of the spore surface ), and in 1975 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He has received honorary doctorates from Belfast, Bath, Edinburgh and Hull Universities.
Researches
Among other things, he researched ribosomal DNA and self-incompatibility in plants . He was awarded the Royal Medal ... in recognition of his pioneering work in reproductive plant biology, especially in the areas of taxonomy and ecology, physiology of the whole plant, development of subcellular systems in somatic and reproductive cells, interactions between pollen and stigma and acto / myosin -Transport systems in the pollen tube. The laudatory speech for the Darwin Medal he and his wife Yolande received was cited in recognition of their great contributions to plant physiology, including fundamental studies of carnivorous plants, of which the two performed large parts together .
literature
- BES Gunning John Heslop-Harrison. February 10, 1920 - May 7, 1998: Elected FRS 1970 , Biogr. Memoirs Fellows Royal Society 2000
- Autobiography part 1, pdf , part 2, pdf , part 3, pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Buczacki, 'Harrison, John Heslop- (1920–1998)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 Oct 2013
- ↑ Stefan Buczacki, 'Harrison, John Heslop- (1920–1998)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 Oct 2013
- ↑ Laudatory speech
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heslop-Harrison, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heslop-Harrison, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middlesbrough |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1998 |
| Place of death | Leominster |