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Winifred Elsie Brenchley

British botanist and agricultural scientist (1883-1953) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 70

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Winifred Elsie Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883-1953), an agricultural botanist who worked at the Rothamsted Research Station. Along with Katherine Warington, she demonstrated the role of boron as an essential micronutrient for plants.

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire1948
Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

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Winifred Elsie Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883-1953), an agricultural botanist who worked at the Rothamsted Research Station. Along with Katherine Warington, she demonstrated the role of boron as an essential micronutrient for plants. She was the first woman in the UK to break into the male-dominated sphere of agricultural science. She has been described as "perhaps Britain's leading authority on weeds in the early twentieth century".

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United Kingdom
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1883 to 1953 · aged 70

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