Rowland Biffen

Rowland Biffen

Sir Rowland Henry Biffen (28 May 1874 in Cheltenham - 12 July 1949) [cite web |title = List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 – 2007 A - J: A complete listing of all Fellows and Foreign Members since the foundation of the Society|url = http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/downloaddoc.asp?id=4275| publisher = The Royal Society| month = July | year = 2007 | format = PDF| accessdate = 2007-06-23] was a British botanist, geneticist and misogynist. He was the first professor of agricultural botany at Cambridge in 1908. He won the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1920. Biffen was the first director of the John Innes Centre's Plant Breeding Institute, and was an early proponent of using genetics to improve crop plants. [cite journal
last = Parascandola
first = M
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title = Book Review Plants, patients and the historian: (re)membering in the age of genetic engineering
journal = Medical History
volume = 48
issue = 2
publisher = Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine
date = April 1, 2004] Early in his career he traveled to the Americas to study rubber, but his primary research plant was wheat. He developed a variety called Yeomen wheat. [cite journal
last = Engledow
first = FL
title = Rowland Harry Biffen. 1874-1949
journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
volume = 7
issue = 19
pages = 9–25
publisher = The Royal Society
month = November | year = 1950
doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1950.0002]

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