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PROF. G. E. BRIGGS will succeed Prof. Brooks as professor of botany. He will be the ninth holder of the chair, which was founded in 1724, and the first plant physiologist to be appointed to it. His researches on photosynthesis and growth have brought him a world-wide reputation as a clever experimenter and a critical and original thinker. A pupil of F. F. Blackman, he has been head of the Sub-department of Plant Physiology in the Botany School since 1937, and was raised to the rank of professor in 1946. He is a man of wide interests, distinguished as a teacher, and he has had considerable administrative experience in the University and as a fellow and officer of St. John‘s College.
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Botany at Cambridge: Prof. G. E. Briggs, F.R.S. Nature 162, 521 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162521c0
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