Frederick Blackman
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Frederick Frost Blackman (25 July 1866 – 30 January 1947) was a British plant physiologist.

Frederick Blackman was born in Lambeth, London to a doctor. He studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating MA. In the subsequent years, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University and was awarded DSc.

He conducted research on plant physiology, in particular photosynthesis, in Cambridge until his retirement in 1936. He was elected in May 1906 a Fellow of the Royal Society, his candidature citation reading "Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Ex-Lecturer and now Reader in Botany in the University. Has made distinguished investigations in physiology of plants, of which the following may be mentioned: Experimental Researches on Vegetable Assimilation and Respiration, viz: - 'On a New Method for investigating the Carbonic Acid Exchanges of Plants' (Phil Trans, 1895); 'On the Paths of Gaseous Exchange between Aerial Leaves and the Atmosphere' (ibid, 1895); by his pupil, Miss Mattaei, 'On the Effect of Temperature on Carbon-Dioxide Assimilation' (ibid); 'A Quantitative Study of Carbon-Dioxide Assimilation and Leaf-Temperature in Natural Illumination' (Proc Roy Soc, 1905, with Miss Matthaei); 'Optima and Limiting Factors' (Ann of Bot, 1905); 'On the Reaction of Leaves to Traumatic Stimulation' (ibid, 1901); and other papers. " . In 1921 he was awarded their Royal Medal
Royal Medal
The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal, is a silver-gilt medal awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences" made within the Commonwealth of...

 and in 1923 delivered their Croonian lecture
Croonian Lecture
The Croonian Lectures are prestigious lectureships given at the invitation of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians.Among the papers of William Croone at his death in 1684, was a plan to endow one lectureship at both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians...

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Blackman’s law of limiting factors

Blackman proposed the law of limiting factors in 1905. According to this law, when a process depends on a number of factors, its rate is limited by the pace of the slowest factor. Blackman's law of limiting factors determines the rate of photosynthesis.
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