William Bertram Turrill

William Bertram Turrill
Born(1890-06-14)14 June 1890
Woodstock, Oxfordshire
Died15 December 1961(1961-12-15) (aged 71)
Surrey
Alma materChelsea Polytechnic[1]
SpouseFlorence Homan
AwardsLinnean Medal (1958)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Order of the British Empire
Scientific career
InstitutionsRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Author abbrev. (botany)
The standard author abbreviation Turrill is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

William Bertram Turrill FRS OBE FLS (14 June 1890 – 15 December 1961) was an English botanist.[3]

W B Turrill's mathematical classification of leaf shapes
  1. ^ a b Hubbard, C. E. (1971). "William Bertram Turrill 1890-1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 688–712. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0028.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Turrill.
  3. ^ "Chrono-Biographical Sketch: William Bertram Turrill". Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2024.