William Henry Lang

William Henry Lang
Born12 May 1874
Withyham, Sussex
Died29 August 1960(1960-08-29) (aged 86)
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Known forresearch into the nature of Psilophyton and discovery of sporangium on the prothallus of ferns
AwardsRoyal Medal (1931)
Linnean Medal (1956)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
University of Glasgow

William Henry Lang FRS[1] FRSE FLS (12 May 1874–29 August 1960) was a British botanist and served as Barker professor of cryptogamic botany at the University of Manchester. He was also a specialist in paleobotany.

  1. ^ a b Salisbury, E. J. (1961). "William Henry Lang. 1874-1960". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7: 146–160. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0012. S2CID 72927176.