Ralph Louis Wain

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FRS (29 May 1911

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– 14 December 2000

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) was a British

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

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. He read Chemistry at the

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on scholarship, and with first class honours degree, and a

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and

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. He was advised by G.M. Bennett. He lectured in chemistry at the South Eastern Agricultural College at Wye, until 1939. During

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, he conducted research at

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, at the

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. After the war, he was Head of the Chemistry Department and the Chair of Agricultural Chemistry at

Wye College The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye, Kent. In 1447, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal John Kempe founded his chantry there which also ...

. He was Honorary Director of the Unit on Plant Growth Substances and Selective Fungicides at Wye. He lectured at

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at Canterbury where he was Honorary Professor in 1977. He was married and had two children.''New Scientist''
January 7, 1960

Awards

*1988 Mullard Medal, Royal Society *1977 Actonian Award of the

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*1960 Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society *1963 John Scott International Award

Works

"Chemotherapy for plant diseases"
''The New Scientist'', January 7, 1960, Vol. 7, No. 164,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wain, Ralph Louis British chemists Fellows of the Royal Society 1911 births 2000 deaths Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University Academics of Wye College Academics of the University of Kent People from Tameside (district) Alumni of the University of Sheffield Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire