Kenneth Mather

Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS[1] (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964. He was the second vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, serving from 1965 to 1971. He was instrumental in persuading the University Grants Committee to establish a new Medical School at the university.[2]

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  2. ^ Peter D S Caligari: Mather, Sir Kenneth (1911–1990), rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 12 Aug 2013