Mark Wayne Chase

Mark Wayne Chase FRS (born 1951) is a US-born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA studies. In particular he has researched orchids, and currently investigates ploidy and hybridization in Nicotiana.[1]

In 1984, he received 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America.[2]

In 1998 he shared the Linnean Medal with Colin Patterson. In 2008 he was one of thirteen recipients of the Darwin-Wallace Medal, which was given every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London. He was the Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory; he is now retired but still an honorary research associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]

He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2014.[4]

The standard author abbreviation M.W.Chase is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
  1. ^ Chase, M. W., M. J. M. Christenhusz, J. G. Conran, S. Dodsworth, F. Nollet Medeiros de Assis, L. P. Felix and M. F. Fay. 2018. Unexpected diversity of Australian tobacco species (Nicotiana section Suaveolentes, Solanaceae). Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 35: 212–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/curt.12241
  2. ^ "Lawrence Memorial Award | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation". www.huntbotanical.org. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  3. ^ Royal Garden's Kew site Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "2014 RHS Awards for Exceptional Contributions to Horticulture Announced". Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  M.W.Chase.