Stan Woodell

Stanley Reginald John Woodell (1928 – 24 April 2004) was a British botanist.[1]

Early life and education

Woodell studied botany at Durham University, where he was a member of Hatfield College. As an undergraduate, he was involved with the Durham University Exploration Society.[2] He remained at Durham for doctoral research into seed incompatibility in the genus Primula, receiving his PhD in 1958.[3]

Career and research

Woodell was a King George VI Fellow at North Carolina State University (1956–57).[4] He was a University Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–88). At Wolfson College, Oxford, he was successively a Governing Body Fellow (1967–88), Supernumerary Fellow (1988–89) and Emeritus Fellow (1989–2004). From 1984 to 2004 he was also the Fellow Librarian of the College.

Woodell collaborated with the ecologist John Proctor on the study of serpentine soils. In 1975, they published an extensive review, "The Ecology of Serpentine Soils", which remained an influential and frequently cited work in the field more than three decades later.[5]

He co-wrote the Flora of Oxfordshire published in 1998, to which his fellow botanist and colleague Humphry Bowen contributed.[6]

References

  1. ↑ J. Steel and A.W. McDonald, Stanley Woodell 1928 – 2004.
  2. ↑ "Expedition to Eire, 1955". Durham University Gazette. 3 (New Series) (2): 10. 7 December 1955.
  3. ↑ Woodell, Stanley Reginald John (1958). Embryological studies on seed incompatibility in Primula (PDF) (PhD thesis). Durham University.
  4. ↑ "The Master's Notebook". Hatfield Record. II (8): 135. Autumn 1957. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  5. ↑ Brearley, Francis Q.; Nagy, László (2007). "Obituary: John Proctor (1943–2005)". Plant and Soil. 293: 3–5.
  6. ↑ Killick, John; Perry, Roy; Woodell, Stan (1998). The Flora of Oxfordshire. Newbury: Pisces Publications. ISBN 978-1-874357-07-0.
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