Sir Ghillean Prance
Document Type
Video File
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Date
10-27-1998
Venue
Mills Godwin Jr. Building - Auditorium
Lecture Series
President's Lecture Series
Description
Ghillean Prance is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica. Prance is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Prance was born on 13 July 1937 in Brandeston, Suffolk, England. He was educated at Malvern College and Keble College, Oxford. In 1957, he achieved BSc Biology. In 1963 he received a D. Phil. in Forest Botany from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford.
Prance worked from 1963 at The New York Botanical Garden, initially as a research assistant and, on his departure in 1988, as Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Vice-President for Science. Much of his career at the New York Botanical Garden was spent conducting extensive fieldwork in the Amazon region of Brazil. In 1973 he coordinated the first Botany Postgraduate Degree held in the Amazon, at National Institute of Amazonian Research, in Manaus. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1988 to 1999.
Media Type
Digital video
File Format
.mp4
File Size
978,974,750 bytes
Run Time
00:59:33
Repository Citation
Prance, Ghillean, "Sir Ghillean Prance" (1998). President's Lecture Series. 12.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/pls/12