| Authorised form of name | Richards; Francis John (1901 - 1965); plant physiologist |
| Dates | 1901 - 1965 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England |
| Date of birth | 01/10/1901 |
| Place of death | Wye, Kent |
| Date of death | 02/01/1965 |
| Research field | Plant physiology |
| Activity | Education:
Burton-on-Trent grammar school; Birmingham University
Career:
Research Institute of Plant Physiology at Rothamsted Experimental Station (1926-1963); Wye South Eastern Agricultural College (1961-1965) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 18/03/1954 |
| Age at election | 52 |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
DSB
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 423-436, plate, by Helen K Porter |
| Code | NA1773 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/74/67 | Referee's report by Walter Stiles, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards | 2 May 1951 |
| IM/003806 | Richards, Francis John | nd |
| EC/1954/19 | Richards, Francis John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/74/64 | Letter from George Robert Sabine Snow, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to [the Royal Society] | 13 January 1951 |
| RR/74/65 | Referee's report by George Robert Sabine Snow, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards | 17 February 1951 |
| RR/74/66 | Letter from Walter Stiles, on a paper 'Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and relation to growth in the apex' by Francis John Richards, to D C Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society | 2 May 1951 |