About Norman Willison Simmonds
Lived 1922 – 2002 (aged 79). Norman Willison Simmonds was a botanist.
Norman Willison Simmonds FRSE FIB FLS (5 or 15 December 1922 – 4 January 2002)
Early life and education
He was born in Bedford on 5 From 1959 to 1965 he was the head of the Potato Genetics Department of the John Innes Institute. In 1975, he was made an Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh. Plant Breeding: The State of the Art (1983) Early Scottish Angling Literature (1997)
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Who was Norman Willison Simmonds?
British botanist (1922-2002)
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Norman Willison Simmonds was born on 5 December 1922.
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Norman Willison Simmonds died on 24 January 2002.
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Norman Willison Simmonds was a botanist.
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