Winifred Elsie Brenchley OBE, DSc (Lond), FLS, FRES (1883–1953), an agricultural botanist who worked at the Rothamsted Research Station. Along with Katherine Warington, she demonstrated the role of boron as an essential micronutrient for plants. She was the first woman in the UK to break into the male-dominated sphere of agricultural science.[1] She has been described as "perhaps Britain's leading authority on weeds in the early twentieth century".[2]
- ^ D.S. Jenkinson, "Brenchley, Winifred Elsie (1883–1953)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 7 August 2012
- ^ Clinton L. Evans The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History Calgary, Univ. of Calgary Press, 2002 p.219