Peter Crane

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Professor Sir Peter Crane is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a knighthood on June 12, 2004.

Professor Crane is an alumnus of the University of Reading. His own research interests involve the integration of studies of living and fossil plants, in order to understand large-scale patterns and processes of plant evolution. He has previously held positions at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (as assistant curator in the Department of Geology, and director with overall responsibility for scientific programs) and at the University of Chicago (professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences). In November 2005, Sir Peter announced that he would resign his position at Kew to accept a faculty appointment in the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences effective from 1 July 2006.

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• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Director - Professor Sir Peter Crane FRS. Retrieved October 4, 2005.
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Peter Crane has a family of himself a wife and two children. He currently resides in Oak Park Illinois.