Stan Woodell
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Stan Woodell (1928 – 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.[1]
Stanley Reginald John Woodell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.
He obtained a degree in Botany from Durham University. An undergraduate at Hatfield College, Woodell was a member of the Durham University Exploration Society.[2] He studied the pollination biology of the genus Primula for his PhD at the same university.
Career
Woodell was a King George VI Fellow at North Carolina State University (1956–57).[3] He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.
As a botanist, Woodell co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire published in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.[4]
Woodell died aged 75. A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.[5]
References
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- ↑ J. Steel and A.W. McDonald, Stanley Woodell 1928 – 2004.
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- ↑ John Killick, Roy Perry and Stan Woodell, Flora of Oxfordshire (Pisces Publications, 1998, Template:ISBN).
- ↑ Memorial Tree Planting, Wolfson College news, Oxford.
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