Percy Wragg Brian

Percy Wragg Brian FRS[1] (5 September 1910 - 17 August 1979) was a British botanist.

He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide.[1] He graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1931. He was awarded a PhD in 1936 and DSc in 1951, and he was elected a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge in 1968.[2]

He worked at ICI's Aker's Research Laboratories from 1946 to 1962 on a team which discovered new antibiotics produced by fungi. He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Botany at University of Glasgow in 1962, leaving six years later to become Head of the Cambridge Botany School.[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Garrett, Stephen Denis (1981). "Percy Wragg Brian. 5 September 1910-17 August 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 27: 102–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1981.0005. JSTOR 769867.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2156&type=P