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Authorised form of nameBarker; John (1901 - 1970)
Dates1901 - 1970
NationalityBritish
Date of birth24/04/1901
Date of death30/12/1970
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/03/1953
Age at election51
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1972 vol 18 pp 35-42, plate, by T A Bennet-Clark
CodeNA663
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/44/136Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on a paper 'The physiological action of cyanide.—I. The effects of cyanide on the respiration and sugar content of the potato at 15° C' by Charles Samuel Hanes and John Barker14 January 1931
EC/1953/04Barker, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/45/86Referee's report by Walter Stiles, on two papers 'Analytic studies in plant respiration. IV.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part I.—The effect of temperature-history on the respiration/sugar relation' and 'Analytic studies in plan respiration. V.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part II.—The form of the normal respiration/sugar relation and the mechanism of depression' by John Barker[September 1932]
RR/45/85Referee's report by Vernon Herbert Blackman, on two papers 'Analytic studies in plant respiration. IV.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part I.—The effect of temperature-history on the respiration/sugar relation' and 'Analytic studies in plan respiration. V.—The relation of the respiration of potatoes to the concentration of sugars and to the accumulation of a depressant at low temperatures. Part II.—The form of the normal respiration/sugar relation and the mechanism of depression' by John Barker[October 1932]
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