Eric John Hewitt
Eric John Hewitt FRS (27 February 1919–1 January 2002) was a British plant physiologist. He is commonly known for compiling and publishing the Long Ashton Nutrient Solution in his 1952 standard work on plant nutrition.[1]
Hewitt was educated at Whitgift School, graduated with a first-class BSc in botany and chemistry from King's College London, and completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 1948.[2] Hewitt's laboratory at Long Ashton Research Station opened in 1956. He was a Reader in Plant Physiology at the University of Bristol from 1967 to 1984.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.[3]
References
- ^ Hewitt E. J. (1952). Sand and Water Culture Methods Used in the Study of Plant Nutrition. Farnham Royal, England: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, pp. 241. Technical Communication No. 22 of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops.
- ^ Bergersen, Fraser J. (2004). "Eric John Hewitt. 27 February 1919-1 January 2002". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 50: 147–155. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2004.0011. S2CID 83853876.
- ^ ‘HEWITT, Eric John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
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