Michael Denis Gale FRS (25 August 1943 - 18 July 2009) was a British plant geneticist. He studied at

West Buckland School West Buckland School is an independent school in West Buckland, Devon in the English public school tradition. It comprises a senior school, preparatory school, and a nursery. It is a relatively high performing school in Devon. It was one of ...

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, and Aberystwyth University with

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. He worked at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, and the

John Innes Centre The John Innes Centre (JIC), located in Norwich, Norfolk, England, is an independent centre for research and training in plant and microbial science founded in 1910. It is a registered charity (No 223852) grant-aided by the Biotechnology and B ...

, Norwich Research Park. He was elected Fellow of the

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in 1996.

Awards and honours

* 1994 − gold medal from the

Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nort ...

* 1998 − The

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, jointly with Professor Graham Moore

Works

*Michael D. Gale and Katrien M. Devos
"Comparative genetics in the grasses"
''Proc Natl Acad Sci''. 1998 March 3; 95(5): 1971–1974

References

1943 births 2009 deaths People educated at West Buckland School Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Aberystwyth University Academics of the University of East Anglia Fellows of the Royal Society British geneticists Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering {{UK-botanist-stub