Kathleen Beyer

Kathleen Beyer
Beyer at a scientific meeting in the United States[1]
Born 1892
Died 1968
Other names Kathleen Beyer Blackburn
Citizenship Great Britain, UK
Scientific career
Fields botany
Institutions Armstrong College

Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892–1968) was a British botanist best remembered for the 1926 discovery that plant cells have sex chromosomes.[1] She taught botany at Armstrong College (later renamed King's College) from 1918 to 1958. She frequently co-authored with J.W. Heslop-Harrison.[2]

She received the Linnean Society's Trail Award and their Gold Medal in 1930 "for outstanding contributions to biological microscopy".[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution.
  2. ↑ "Kathleen Beyer Blackburn, (1892-1968) seated". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  3. ↑ Linnean Society [@LinneanSociety] (14 March 2018). "Kathleen Bever Blackburn (1892-1968), a botanist, received the Trail Award and Linnean Society Gold Medal in 1930 for outstanding contributions to biological microscopy. Attached is her letter of acceptance. #LinnSocFemaleFellow #celebratingourfellows" (Tweet) – via Twitter. - includes photograph of her letter of acceptance
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