L.J.F. Brimble

Lionel John Farnham Brimble (16 January 1904 in Radstock, Somerset – 15 November 1965 in London) was a botanist, author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and editor of the journal Nature.

Early life He was born in 1904, the son of a blacksmith and innkeeper at Radstock, Somerset, where his early childhood was said to be very happy. He rejected a naval scholarship He won a scholarship to University College of Reading, where he read Botany under Professor W. Stiles. on the retirement of Sir Richard, Brimble and his colleague A. J. V. Gale were appointed joint editors of Nature magazine. The partnership lasted 23 years, during which Nature published seminal papers in palaeoanthropology, nuclear energy, holography, lasers and the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.

During this period Brimble travelled widely abroad, particularly in America and Australia.

Publications Everyday Botany (1934) ; 1949 edition Flowers in Britain (1944) Trees In Britain: Wild, Ornamental And Economic, And Some Relatives In Other Lands (1946) Social Studies and World Citizenship;: A Sociological Approach to Education (1947) Nature Studies for Schools: With Suggestions for Practical, Field and Museum Work (1951) Flowers in Britain: Wild, Ornamental and Economic, and Some Relatives in Other Lands (1952) Intermediate Botany (1953) Useful Animals of the World (1956) Physiology, Anatomy and Health (1958) A School Course Of Biology, With Suggestions For Experimental And Field Work (1961)

Achievements Fellow, Linnean Society of London, 1938. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1953.