Jack Hawkes (botanist)

John Gregory "Jack" Hawkes OBE FLS (27 June 1915 in Bristol – 6 September 2007 in Reading) was a British botanist, Mason Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham.[1][2]

For the Australian tennis player, also known as Jack Hawkes, see John Hawkes (tennis).

He specialised in studying the taxonomy of wild potato species (Solanum sect. Petota), identified sources of resistance to the potato cyst nematode and played a role in establishing programs to maintain agricultural biodiversity.[3][4]

He was awarded the OBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours.[5]

References
  1. "Jack Hawkes: Plant Collector, Researcher, Mentor and Visionary". Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. CABI. 2008. pp. 18–20. ISBN 978-1-84593-307-4.
  2. Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). "Hawkes, John Gregory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Oxford University Press. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
  3. "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Independent. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  4. "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Daily Telegraph. 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
  5. "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 12.
  6. IPNI.  Hawkes.
  • Pistrick, K.; Hammer, K. (2007). "John G. Hawkes (1915–2007)". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 54 (8): 1635. doi:10.1007/s10722-007-9291-9.
  • Richard N. Lester (2005). "Book Review - Hunting the Wild Potato in the South American Andes: Memories of the British Empire Potato Collecting Expedition to South America 1938–1939". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 52: 483–488. doi:10.1007/s10722-005-8253-3.
  • 'HAWKES, Prof. John Gregory', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 accessed 30 May 2011



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