Percy Wragg Brian
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Percy Wragg Brian was a British botanist.
He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide. He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1931. He was awarded a PhD in 1936 and DSc in 1951, and he was elected a Fellow of Queen's College in 1968.
He worked at ICI's Aker's Research Laboratories from 1946 to 1962 on a team which discovered new antibiotics produced by fungi. He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Botany at Glasgow University in 1962, leaving six years later to become Head of the Cambridge Botany School.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.
He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide. He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1931. He was awarded a PhD in 1936 and DSc in 1951, and he was elected a Fellow of Queen's College in 1968.
He worked at ICI's Aker's Research Laboratories from 1946 to 1962 on a team which discovered new antibiotics produced by fungi. He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Botany at Glasgow University in 1962, leaving six years later to become Head of the Cambridge Botany School.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958.