Arthur Henry Reginald Buller, (19 August 1874 – 3 July 1944) was a British-Canadian

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. He is mainly known as a researcher of

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and wheat rust.

Academic career

Born in

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, England, he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton. He then studied at Mason College, which later became the

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, (B.Sc. in 1896), the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.), and the University of Munich. He was awarded a D.Sc. by the

. He worked briefly for the Naples Zoological Station. From 1901 to 1904, he was a lecturer in Botany at the

. He came to Canada in 1904, founded the Botany Department and was the first Professor of Botany and Geology at the

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s, some of which were published in ''

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'', including this one on Einstein's

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Honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1909, and became its

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in 1927. In 1929, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's

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. In 1937, he was elected a

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(FRS). He was a life member of the

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. He was awarded honorary degrees from the

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. The Buller Building at the University of Manitoba, built in 1932, is named in his honour.

References

*Goldsborough, Gordon. Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City. ''Manitoba History'' Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buller, Arthur 1874 births 1944 deaths People from Moseley British mycologists 20th-century British botanists 20th-century Canadian botanists Canadian mycologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellows of the Royal Society English emigrants to Canada Royal Medal winners University of Manitoba faculty People educated at Queen's College, Taunton Alumni of the University of Birmingham Academics of the University of Birmingham Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society