 Botanist
Ghillean Prance Champions Biodiversity
Biodiversity
is one of the planets most precious resources, and the tropical rain forests harbor the
bulk of this richness. Among those who have spent their lives studying and documenting the
life of the rain forests, few have attained greater prominence than Sir Ghillean Prance,
currently director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England.
Having completed a first degree and a doctorate in botanical taxonomy in
Oxford, Prance joined the New York Botanical Garden in 1963 as a research assistant, gradually working his way up to director of research, then
vice-president of research, and finally senior vice-president for science in 1981. He left
the Garden in 1988 to become director of Kew. A Fellow of the Royal Society since... |
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The Cream
of the Crop in Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute and the DuPont
Company are the standouts among institutions in the latest Science Watch survey of
"high-impact" papers in chemistry published between 1994 and 1996. ...
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