Jack Hawkes (botanist)

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For the Australian tennis player, also known as Jack Hawkes, see John Hawkes (tennis).

John Gregory "Jack" Hawkes OBE FLS (27 June 1915 in Bristol – 6 September 2007 in Reading) was a British botanist, Mason Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham.[1][2]

He specialised in studying the taxonomy of wild potato species (Solanum sect. Petota), identified sources of resistance to the potato cyst nematode and played a role in establishing programs to maintain agricultural biodiversity.[3][4]

He was awarded the OBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours.[5]

The standard author abbreviation Hawkes is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Jack Hawkes: Plant Collector, Researcher, Mentor and Visionary". Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. CABI. 2008. pp. 18–20. ISBN 978-1-84593-307-4.
  2. ^ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). "Hawkes, John Gregory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Oxford University Press. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
  3. ^ "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Independent. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  4. ^ "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Daily Telegraph. 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  5. ^ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 12.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Hawkes.
  • Pistrick, K.; Hammer, K. (2007). "John G. Hawkes (1915–2007)". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 54 (8): 1635. doi:10.1007/s10722-007-9291-9.
  • Richard N. Lester (2005). "Book Review - Hunting the Wild Potato in the South American Andes: Memories of the British Empire Potato Collecting Expedition to South America 1938–1939". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 52: 483–488. doi:10.1007/s10722-005-8253-3.
  • 'HAWKES, Prof. John Gregory', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 accessed 30 May 2011

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