William Bertram Turrill
William Bertram Turrill OBE (14 June 1890, Woodstock, Oxfordshire-15 December 1961, Surrey) was an English botanist.
He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary (née Homan) Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School. He married Florence Homan in 1918.
He worked in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and was responsible for many innovations including a mathematical classification of leaf shapes.[1]
He received the Order of the British Empire in 1955 and the gold medal of the Linnean Society in 1958. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1958 as someone: "Distinguished for his work on plant taxonomy, particularly for his experimental and genetical approach to problems among British plant species and for his exceptional knowledge of the floras of the Near East". [2]
This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Turrill when citing a botanical name.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ C. E. Hubbard (1971) William Bertram Turrill. 1890-1961. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 17, (Nov., 1971), pp. 689-712
- ^ "Library and Archice Catalogue". Royal Society. http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27turrill%27%29. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
- ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
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