- Peter Crane
Professor Sir Peter Crane (born
18 July ,1954 ) is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens inKew ,London . He is a fellow of theRoyal Society , a foreign associate of theUnited States National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences . He was awarded a knighthood onJune 12 ,2004 .Professor Crane is an alumnus of the
University of Reading . His own research interests involve the integration of studies of living and fossil plants, in order to understand large-scale patterns and processes of plant evolution. He has previously held positions at theField Museum of Natural History in Chicago (as assistant curator in the Department of Geology, and director with overall responsibility for scientific programs) and at theUniversity of Chicago (professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences). In November 2005, Sir Peter announced that he would resign his position at Kew to accept a faculty appointment in theUniversity of Chicago ’s Department of Geophysical Sciences effective from 1 July 2006.Peter Crane has a family of himself, a wife and two children. He currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois.
References
* Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. " [http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/aboutus/petercrane.html Director - Professor Sir Peter Crane FRS] ". Retrieved
October 4 ,2005 .
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