Kathleen Basford | |
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Born | 6 September 1916 Grantham, Lincolnshire, England |
Died | 20 December 1998 | (aged 82)
Alma mater | University of Manchester |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Academic advisors | S C Harland |
Kathleen Basford (6 September 1916 – 20 December 1998) was a British botanist, with a special interest in genetics. She is known for discovering a form of fuchsia that was a cross between a New Zealand and Mexican fuchsia, proving this form of flower existed 20–30million years ago, before the continents had separated.[1]