Richard Pankhurst | |
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Born | Richard John Pankhurst 1940 |
Died | 26 March 2013 | (aged 72–73)
Occupation | Botanist |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Biodiversity informatics |
Institutions | Natural History Museum, London, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
Richard John Pankhurst (1940 [1]–2013) was a British computer scientist, botanist and academic. From 1963 to 1966 he worked at CERN, then from 1966 to 1974 on computer-aided design at Cambridge University, and from 1974 to 1991 at the Natural History Museum as curator of the British herbarium. In 1991, he became a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. [2]
He published over fifty peer reviewed papers [2] and sat on several committees: [2]
His book Biological Identification (1978) has been described as " the first textbook on computer methods in identification". [2]
Pankhurst died in 2013, [3] a year after the species Taraxacum pankhurstianum, endemic to St. Kilda, was named in his honour, for his suggestion that the seed from which it was grown at Edinburgh be collected. [4] [5] [6]
Richard Pankhurst | |
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Born | Richard John Pankhurst 1940 |
Died | 26 March 2013 | (aged 72–73)
Occupation | Botanist |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Biodiversity informatics |
Institutions | Natural History Museum, London, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh |
Richard John Pankhurst (1940 [1]–2013) was a British computer scientist, botanist and academic. From 1963 to 1966 he worked at CERN, then from 1966 to 1974 on computer-aided design at Cambridge University, and from 1974 to 1991 at the Natural History Museum as curator of the British herbarium. In 1991, he became a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. [2]
He published over fifty peer reviewed papers [2] and sat on several committees: [2]
His book Biological Identification (1978) has been described as " the first textbook on computer methods in identification". [2]
Pankhurst died in 2013, [3] a year after the species Taraxacum pankhurstianum, endemic to St. Kilda, was named in his honour, for his suggestion that the seed from which it was grown at Edinburgh be collected. [4] [5] [6]