Ronald Karslake Starr Wood

Ronald Karslake Starr Wood FRS (8 April 1919 – 26 April 2017) was a British plant pathologist, and Professor of Plant Pathology in the Imperial College London.

Life

He was awarded a Royal Scholarship to attend Imperial College London. During World War II, he worked at the Ministry of Aircraft Production.[1]

He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He died on 26 April 2017 at the age of 98.[2]

Works

  • Physiological plant pathology, Blackwell Scientific, 1967
  • Disease in higher plants, Oxford University Press, 1974, ISBN 0-19-914161-4
  • "Physiological Plant Pathology Comes of Age", Annual Review of Phytopathology, Vol. 25: 26-40 (September 1987)

References

  1. ↑ Hannah Gay (2007). The history of Imperial College London, 1907-2007. World Scientific. ISBN 978-1-86094-709-4.
  2. ↑ Professor Ronald Wood
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