Michael Denis Gale

British plant geneticist

Michael Denis Gale FRS (25 August 1943 - 18 July 2009) was a British plant geneticist.[1]

He studied at West Buckland School, Birmingham University, and Aberystwyth University with Hubert Rees. He worked at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, and the John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.[2] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.[3]

Awards and honours

  • 1994 − gold medal from the Royal Horticultural Society
  • 1998 − The Royal Society Darwin Medal, jointly with Professor Graham Moore[4]

Works

  • Michael D. Gale and Katrien M. Devos, "Comparative genetics in the grasses", Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1998 March 3; 95(5): 1971–1974

References

  1. ^ http://www.akademiai.com/content/p352243253k62861/ [dead link]
  2. ^ "Appendices".
  3. ^ Flavell, Richard B.; Snape, John W. (2020). "Michael Denis Gale. 25 August 1943—18 July 2009". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 203–223. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0011. S2CID 221298637.
  4. ^ Darwin Medal, Royal Society, retrieved 14 July 2011
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