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Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
FRSC, FRS
Born(1874-08-19)August 19, 1874
Moseley, Birmingham, England
DiedJuly 3, 1944(1944-07-03) (aged 69)
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Alma materMason College
The University of Birmingham
Queen's College, Taunton
University of Leipzig
AwardsRoyal Medal (1937)
Flavelle Medal (1929)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMycology, Botany
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham
University of Manitoba
Author abbrev. (botany)Buller

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller FRSC FRS[1] (August 19, 1874 – July 3, 1944) was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust.

Academic career

Mason College, now the University of Birmingham

Born in Moseley, Birmingham, England, he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton. He then studied at Mason College, which later became the University of Birmingham, (BSc in 1896),[2] the University of Leipzig (PhD), and the University of Munich. He was awarded a DSc by the University of Birmingham. He worked briefly for the Naples Zoological Station. From 1901 to 1904, he was a Lecturer in Botany at University of Birmingham. He came to Canada in 1904 and founded the Botany Department at the University of Manitoba and was the first Professor of Botany and Geology at the University of Manitoba, and served as Head of the Botany Department until his retirement in 1936.

Poetry

He also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch, including this one on Einstein's special theory of relativity:[3]

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

A. H. Reginald Buller in Punch (Dec. 19, 1923): 591.

Honours

He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1909 and became its President in 1927. In 1929, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal and in 1937 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] He was a life member of the Mycological Society of America.

He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Calcutta, University of Manitoba, and University of Pennsylvania. The Buller Building at the University of Manitoba, built in 1932, is named in his honour.

The standard author abbreviation Buller is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Brooks, F. T. (1945). "Arthur Henry Reginald Buller. 1874-1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (14): 50. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1945.0004.
  2. ^ "University of London General Register part 3" (PDF). University of London. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ^ There Was a Young Lady Named Bright Whose Speed Was Far Faster Than Light, Quote Investigator, Dec 19, 2013, last accessed 2014-02-18.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Buller.
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