| RefNo | EC/1955/15 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVI, 133; A04312 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Lewis, Dan: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Head of the Genetics Department, John Innes Horticultural Institution, since 1948. Ph.D., D.Sc., (London)
Notable for his pioneer experiments in physiological genetics. He was the first to distinguish the serological and the osmotic types of pollination incompatibility in flowering plants. He was responsible for recognising new types of reaction between alleles in artificial tetraploids of incompatible species. He also succeeded in breaking down the incompatibility gene into its components by X-ray mutation and in producing self-fertile forms in incompatible species. His temperature-controlled breeding experiments revealed the hereditary function of the cytoplasm in the apparently non-mendelian type of mutations known as "rogues" which he was able to control physiologically.
(List of 58 publications) |
| Proposers | From personal knowledge. C D Darlington; R A Fisher; Kenneth Mather; S C Harland; E B Ford; Kenneth M Smith; C H Waddington |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6851 | Lewis; Dan (1910 - 2009) | 1910 - 2009 |