Harry Beevers

Harry Beevers (January 10, 1924 – April 14, 2004) was an English-born American plant physiologist. Beevers made major contributions to the understanding of plant metabolism and plant cell biology.^[1][2] Beevers widely noted for the discovery of the glyoxylate cycle in seedlings of plants that results in the production of glucose during early seedling growth.^[3] He served as president of the American Society of Plant Physiologists.^[2] University of California called Beevers "one of the leading plant physiologists of the 20th century".^[2] Beevers was a member of the National Academy of Sciences^[2][4] and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] Beevers received honorary doctorates from Purdue University, the University of Nagoya in Japan, and Newcastle University on Tyne in England.^[2] Oxford University honored Beevers by naming a building in his name, the Harry Beevers Laboratory.^[2] Beevers received Stephen Hales Prize in 1970 and Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award in 1999.^[2]