Vernon Heywood

Vernon Hilton Heywood (born December 24, 1927) is a British biologist. His specializations are medicinal and aromatic plants, and the conservation of wild relatives of plants.

He is currently a professor on the academic staff at the University of Reading in Reading, United Kingdom.

In 1987 he was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London.[1] Planta Europa honored him with their Linnaeus award at their fifth conference, held in 2007 in Cluj Napoca.[2] The book Taxonomy and Plant Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2006, Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury, eds.) was dedicated as a tribute to Heywood in honor of his 75th birthday.[3]

The standard author abbreviation Heywood is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ Recipients of the Linnean Medal.
  2. ^ About Planta Europa.
  3. ^ Publisher's catalog entry with text of frontmatter dedicating the book to Heywood.
  4. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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