Thomas Bennet-Clark
Thomas Bennet-Clark | |
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| Born | Thomas Achibald Bennet-Clark |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Awards | FRS (1950)[1] |
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Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark CBE FRS (13 January 1903 – 24 November 1975) was a British biologist.
Education
He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Career
He was a Lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1930 to 1936; Professor of Botany at the University of Nottingham from 1936 to 1944; Professor of Botany at King's College London from 1944 to 1962; Professor of Biology and Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia from 1962 to 1967, and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of East Anglia from 1967.
In Birmingham his position was filled by Prof Charles Chesters.[3]
Awards and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1950 and awarded a CBE in 1966.
References
- ^ Brown, R. (1977). "Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark 13 January 1903 -- 24 November 1975". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 23. Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1977.0001.
- ^ ‘BENNET-CLARK, Thomas Archibald’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
- ^ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/chesters_charles.pdf
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