Roger Smith is a UK biologist and founder of the

Millennium Seed Bank Project The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP or MSB), formerly known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, is the largest ''ex situ'' plant conservation biology, conservation programme in the world coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Af ...

. He was awarded an

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in the 2000

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for services to the project. Smith joined the

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,10 ...

in 1974, after graduating from

Manchester University , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Unive ...

with a BSc in botany.

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British biologists Living people Alumni of the University of Manchester Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Officers of the Order of the British Empire Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-botanist-stub