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RefNoEC/1971/17
Previous numbersCert XIX, 17; A05004
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TitleMonteith, John Lennox: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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CitationDr. Monteith has made outstanding contributions to knowledge and understanding of the micro-climatology of field crops. In the physics, he has achieved complete energy, water, and carbon dioxide balances; in the biology, he has linked transpiration, assimilation and respiration rates with stomatal responses to light intensity, leaf orientation, ventilation and soil water stress. His early work on the physics of dew is unlikely to be superseded: his radiation studies embrace a survey for the British Isles down to the attenuation and spectral changes as sunlight filters through a crop canopy. He has been highly successful in devising or improving apparatus, and he has added much to the concept of "potential photosynthesis" as a measure of how a plant ought to grow in a given environment. In the application of physical principles to plant ecology he has few peers, and is an acknowledged leader in this aspect of crop meteorology.
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Monteith, John Lennox: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA2555Monteith; John Lennox (1929 - 2012)1929 - 2012
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