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Joseph Reynolds Green
FLS
Born(1848-12-03)3 December 1848
Stowmarket, Suffolk
Died3 June 1914(1914-06-03) (aged 65)
NationalityBritish
EducationBedford Modern School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Joseph Reynolds Green

FLS (1848-1914) was an English botanist, physiologist and chemist whose research into plant enzymes was influential in the development of the discipline of biochemistry. He held the chair in Botany at The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and lectured at the University of Liverpool and Downing College, Cambridge. In 1895 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Early life

Joseph Reynolds Green was the son of Daniel Green and was born on 3 December 1848 in

B.Sc. from the University of London.[9]

Career

Green entered Trinity College in 1881 and gained Firsts in Parts I and II of the

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and this dictated the course of his future research. Green came to argue that plant physiology rather than simply plant taxonomy should become the basis of botanical study and he did important work in relation to plant enzymes and the protein content of seeds.[11] Green's approach to botany anticipated the development of biochemistry and his work is now regarded as fundamental to the emergence of the science.[12]

Green was awarded the Rollaston Prize by the University of Oxford in 1890 and was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Science in 1894.[9] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and from 1902 he was a Fellow and Lecturer of Downing College, Cambridge. In 1907 he relinquished his Chair at the Pharmaceutical Society because of ill-health and was appointed to the less demanding position of Hartley Lecturer in Botany at Liverpool University. Green was the author of a number of botanical works including basic primers on the subject, accounts of the historical evolution of the subject as well as academic treatises.

Joseph Green served as Deacon at Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge. He died on 3 June 1914.[9]

Selected works

  • Researches on the Germination of the Pollen Grain and the Nutrition of the Pollen Tube (London, 1894)
  • A Manual of Botany (London, 1897)
  • The Soluble Ferments and Fermentation (Cambridge, 1899)
  • Botany (New York, 1909)
  • A History of Botany 1860-1900, Being a Continuation of Sachs' History of Botany, 1530-1860 (Oxford, 1909)
  • A History of Botany in the United Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century (London, 1914)

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1
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  2. ^ John Venn (ed.) Alumni Cantabrigiensis: a Biographical List of all Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to 1900, (Cambridge, 2011 edn.p.130 at Google Books
  3. ^ Aumni Cantabrigiensis
  4. ^ a b The Eagle Vol. III (1888), p. 243
  5. ^ The Eagle Volume XXVII no, 2 (1949), p. 135
  6. S2CID 220000585
    – via www.bmj.com.
  7. ^ Obituary of Joseph Reynolds Green, Bedfordshire Times 12 June 1914, p. 7
  8. ^ Obituary of Samuel Hoppus Adams, Bedfordshire Times March, 9th, 1895, p. 7
  9. ^ a b c d Alumni Cantabrigiensis
  10. ^ W. J. O'Connor British Physiologists 1885-1914-A Biographical Dictionary (Manchester, 1991), page 29 at Google Books
  11. ^ Joseph Fruton, Proteins, Enzymes, Genes: the Interplay of Chemistry and Biology (New Haven, Connecticut, 1999), p. 67 at Google Books
  12. ^ Joseph Fruton, Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 191 (Philadelphia, 1990), p. 109 at Google Books
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