Jack Heslop-Harrison
John "Jack" Heslop - Harrison ( born February 10, 1920 in Middlesbrough; † 7 May 1998 in Leominster ) was a British botanist. His botanical abbreviation is Hesl.-Harr.f.
Life
John Heslop - Harrison was one of three children of the 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 was initially a radar technician in the Orkneys, then charge at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force with the valuation German technical innovations. After the war he was a lecturer of Agricultural Botany at the University of Durham, 1946, he became a lecturer at Queen's University of Belfast, where he received his doctorate and in 1950 William Harold Pearsall at University College London as a lecturer. In 1953 he became Reader for taxonomy, went back to the 1954 Queen's College in Belfast, and in 1960 professor of botany at the University of Birmingham. In 1967 he became professor and head of the Institute of 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 Tegierung was not prepared enough to equip the Institute financially, he resigned and was Royal Society Research Professor at Aberystwyth University. In 1985 he became Professor Emeritus. He was married since 1950 with the botanist Yolande Heslop - Harrison (nee Massey ), with whom he also worked.
Awards
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1970 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, received the 1967 Trail - Crisp Medal of the Linnean Society, the Erdtman medal for Palynology 1971, 1976, the Darwin Medal ( with his wife Yolande Massey ), the Linnean medal in 1976, the Keith medal, the medal of Navaschin Komarov Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the Royal Medal in 1996. He held 1974 Croonian Lecture (via the physiology of the spore surface). He was honorary doctorates from the universities Belfast, Bath, Edinburgh and Hull.
Research
He conducted research among other things, Ribosomal DNA and self-incompatibility in plants. The Royal Medal was awarded to him ... in recognition of his pioneering work in reproductive plant biology, especially in the fields 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 .. in the eulogy for the Darwin medal, which he received with his wife Yolande, was cited in recognition of their major contributions to plant physiology including basic studies on carnivorous plants, of which the two major parts conducted jointly.