Record

RefNoLC/1944/18
LevelItem
TitleSnow, George Robert Sabine
Date08 November 1939
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to the Fellowship
Suspended 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944
Lapsed 1944
CitationSnow, George Robert SAbine (Oxford). Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, devoting his whole time for the last fifteen years to botanical research.
Distinguished for his discoveries with respect to growth and inhibitory hormones in plants, and (jointly with Mrs Snow) the conditions determining the places of origin of lateral members of the plant axis. His work combines a high degree of scientific imagination with great ingenuity of technique, and his results are expressed with remarkable elegance and cogency.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: Proposer - Frederick Keeble; Seconder - A G Tansley; J B Farmer; V H Blackman; Walter Stiles; C S Sherrington; F T Brooks; E J Maskell; F F Blackman; G R de Beer
Extent1 sheet
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionPaper, manuscript
NotesSubsequently elected 18 March 1948
AccessStatusOpen
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