John Monteith Explained

John Monteith
Birth Name:John Lennox Monteith
Birth Date:1929 9, df=yes
Awards:FRS (1971), FRSE (1972)
Known For:Application of physics in biology

John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS[1] (3 September 1929 – 20 July 2012) was a British scientist who pioneered the application of physics to biology.[2] He was an authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops, forestry, and animal production.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Research

His pioneering work with Howard Penman on evapotranspiration is applied worldwide as the Penman-Monteith equation. It predicts evapotranspiration and is recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization for calculating irrigation quantities.[2] Monteith's research on the role of the environment in agriculture,[8] the physics of crop microclimate, physiology of crop growth and yield, radiation climatology,[9] heat balance in animals,[10] and instrumentation for measuring physical and physiological variables in agriculture has been published in journals throughout the world.[11]

He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1978 to 1980. In his presidential address in 1980 he advised colleagues that unless they could understand how crop yields were determined by weather events, they would have little hope of predicting how crop yields would vary as a result of global warming and elevated levels.[12] [13]

When he retired in 1992 a conference on resource capture by crops was organised and a further conference was held in 2008.[14] The American Society of Agronomy also organised a symposium in his honour in 1996.[15] In an obituary by researchers at Nottingham it was noted it was "impossible to quantify" the impact of his research but that his influence was major judging by the large number of researchers that he supervised who held senior positions in organisations around the world.[15]

Career

Awards and honours

His nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Notes and References

  1. 10.1098/rsbm.2014.0005. John Lennox Monteith 3 September 1929 -- 20 July 2012. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2014. Unsworth . Michael H.. 60. 299–329. 62618332.
  2. Web site: John Lennox Monteith. The Herald . 6 September 2012 . 2 November 2013.
  3. Principles of Environmental Physics; JL Monteith, M Unsworth (four editions published in 1973, 1990, 2008 and 2013)
  4. Book: John Monteith. Mike Unsworth. Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere. 26 July 2013. Academic Press. 978-0-12-386993-7.
  5. Monteith . J. L. . Evaporation and environment. Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology . 19 . 205–234 . 1965 . 5321565 .
  6. 10.2134/agronj1996.00021962008800050003x. The Quest for Balance in Crop Modeling. Agronomy Journal. 88. 5. 695–697. 1996. Monteith . J. L. .
  7. 10.1016/0168-1923(94)90037-X. Validity of the correlation between intercepted radiation and biomass. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 68. 3–4. 213–220. 1994. Monteith . J. L. . 1994AgFM...68..213M.
  8. Monteith. J.L.. 1995. A reinterpretation of stomatal responses to humidity. Plant, Cell and Environment. en. 18. 4. 357–364. 10.1111/j.1365-3040.1995.tb00371.x. 0140-7791.
  9. Monteith. J.L.. 1962. Attenuation of solar radiation: A climatological study. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. en. 88. 378. 508–521. 10.1002/qj.49708837812. 1962QJRMS..88..508M .
  10. Book: Heat Loss from Animals and Man. Butterworths. 1974. 040870652X. Monteith. John L.. London. Mount. Laurence E..
  11. Web site: Distinguished Voices Audio: John Lennox Monteith DSc FRS FRMetS (interview: 2 hours 40 mins in 4 parts). 1994. Royal Meteorological Society. 2018-04-14.
  12. Carter . T. R. . Agricultural Impacts: Multi-model yield projections . 10.1038/nclimate1995 . Nature Climate Change . 3 . 9 . 784 . 2013 . 2013NatCC...3..784C .
  13. Monteith. J.L.. 1981. Climatic variation and the growth of crops. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 107. 454. 749–774. 10.1002/qj.49710745402. 1981QJRMS.107..749M .
  14. Sparkes . D. . Preface . 10.1093/jxb/erp124 . Journal of Experimental Botany . 60 . 7 . 1897 . 2009 . free .
  15. Ong . C. . Black . C. . 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.10.012 . John Monteith . Agricultural and Forest Meteorology . 166-167 . A1–A2 . 2012 . 2012AgFM..166A...1O .
  16. Web site: Professor John Lennox Monteith FRS FRSE. 21 January 2017.
  17. Web site: Prizes awarded by the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund. Rank Prize Funds. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121111080405/http://www.rankprize.org/nutrition1.htm. 11 November 2012. dmy-all.
  18. Web site: Awards-Historical List. Royal Meteorological Society. 23 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151124065234/http://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/awards-historical.pdf. 24 November 2015. dead.

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