Michael Denis Gale

Michael Denis Gale FRS (25 August 1943 - 18 July 2009) was a British plant geneticist. ^[1]

He studied at West Buckland School, Birmingham University, and Aberystwyth University with Hubert Rees. He worked at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, and the John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park. ^[2] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996. ^[3]

Awards and honours

• 1994 − gold medal from the Royal Horticultural Society
• 1998 − The Royal Society Darwin Medal, jointly with Professor Graham Moore ^[4]

Works

• Michael D. Gale and Katrien M. Devos, "Comparative genetics in the grasses", Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1998 March 3; 95(5): 1971–1974

References

1. http://www.akademiai.com/content/p352243253k62861/ ^{[ dead link ]}
2. "Appendices".
3. Flavell, Richard B.; Snape, John W. (2020). "Michael Denis Gale. 25 August 1943—18 July 2009". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 69: 203–223. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.2020.0011 . S2CID   221298637.
4. Darwin Medal, Royal Society , retrieved 14 July 2011