| RefNo | EC/1999/45 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Stebbins, George Ledyard: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1998 |
| Description | Certificate of Candidate for Election to Foreign Membership. Citation typed on separate piece of paper, then pasted onto certificate |
| Citation | George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr is one of the foremost botanists of this century. He is known especially for his book 'Variation and Evolution in Plants' which established him in company with Ernst Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky as the architects of evolutionary synthesis that brought together genetics and selection theory between 1920 and 1950. He established cytogenetics as a vital tool in plant systematics at the species level and his later books, e.g. 'Flowering Plants: Evolution above the species level' (1974) and 'Evolution' (1977) (coauthored with Dobzhansky, Ayala and Valentine) extended the wide vision of his early classic. He has been a strong suppoprter of international science and in the early 60s he served as Secretary General to the International Union of Biological Sciences. |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2968 | Stebbins; George Ledyard (1906 - 2000) | 1906 - 2000 |