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Frederick Campion Steward, plant physiologist and botanist: born London 16 June 1904; Demonstrator, Leeds University 1926-27; Rockefeller Fellow, Cornell University 1927; Assistant Lecturer, Leeds University 1929-33; Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation 1933- 34; Reader in Botany, Birkbeck College, London 1934-40; Director Aircraft Equipment (Ministry of Aircraft Production) 1940-45; Professor of Botany and Departmental Chairman, University of Rochester, New York 1946-50; Charles A. Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of Laboratory for Cell Physiology and Growth, Cornell University 1950-73; FRS 1957; married 1929 Anne Temple Gordon (one son); died Tuscaloosa, Alabama 13 September 1993.
F. C. STEWARD will rank as one of the outstanding plant physiologists of this century. His impact has been profound, in that he not only had a holistic view of plant physiology, but he also, with characteristic prescience, perceived its relationship to plant growth and development, and the regeneration of plants from cultured cells.
Born in Pimlico, London, in 1904, but brought up in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Steward was academically nurtured at Heckmondwike Grammar School and at Leeds University; having obtained a First Class honours degree in Chemistry at the age of 20, he was persuaded by Professor J.H. Priestley, a highly unorthodox physiological botanist, to undertake research with him in the Botany Department. Following his PhD on...