William Owen James
William Owen James (born May 21, 1900 in London , † September 15, 1978 in Wellington ) was an English botanist and biochemist .
James was the son of a teacher and from 1919 studied agriculture and botany at University College Reading and the University of London. From 1924 he worked in Cambridge with the carbon dioxide balance in photosynthesis. He continued this at the research station for plant physiology in Rothamsted and received his doctorate in 1927. He then went to Oxford , where he became an assistant and, in 1947, a lecturer, dealing with the alkaloids of the deadly nightshade. In 1959 he became professor of botany at Imperial College London . In 1967 he retired. In 1977 he moved to New Zealand.
In 1959, William James was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1960 he became a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- Plant Respiration, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953
- Cell Respiration, Hodder and Stoughton 1971
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 222f
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of William James at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 30, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | James, William Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English botanist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1978 |
| Place of death | Wellington |