Frederick Tom Brooks

Frederick Tom Brooks
Born 1882
Somerset
Died 1952
Cambridge
Residence England
Fields botany, mycology, plant diseases
Institutions Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Notable students Ted Bollard
Notable awards FRS (1930)

Frederick Tom Brooks FRS[1] (17 December 1882 – 11 March 1952) was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.

He was born in Somerset and attended Sexey's School, Somerset from 1895-1898. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1902 and became Professor of Botany there in 1936. He specialised in mycology and investigated, amongst other things, silver-leaf disease of fruit trees. His book Plant Diseases appeared in 1928.[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930 [1] and died in Cambridge aged 70.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Moore, W. C. (1953). "Frederick Tom Brooks. 1882-1952". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 (22): 340–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1953.0002. JSTOR 769214.
  2. http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/25/2/142
  3. "Author Query for 'F.T.Brooks'". International Plant Names Index.