William Pearsall Explained

Professor William Pearsall
Birth Name:	William Harold Pearsall
Birth Date:	1891 7, df=y
Birth Place:	Stourbridge, England
Fields:	Botany
Workplaces:	University College London
Known For:	Quain Professor

William Harold Pearsall ^[1] (23 July 1891 – 14 October 1964) was a British botanist, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1944–1957.^[2]

Awards and honours

Pearsall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1940.^[1] His nomination reads:

References

1. Clapham . A. R. . 10.1098/rsbm.1971.0020 . William Harold Pearsall 1891-1964 . . 17 . 511–526 . 1971 .
2. ‘PEARSALL, William Harold’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 July 2013