Hutchinson, Sir Joseph Burtt, 1902-1988 (Knight, geneticist and agriculturist)
Dates
- Existence: 1902 - 1988
Biography
After a career as a plant geneticist in Trinidad, India, Sudan and Uganda, Sir Joseph Hutchinson returned to Cambridge in 1957 as Drapers' Professor of Agriculture and fellow of St. John's College (of which he had been an undergraduate). He held the Drapers' chair until the School of Agriculture was closed in 1969, and continued to live in Cambridge until his death in 1988.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Professor Sir Joseph Hutchinson: correspondence on early agriculture,1967-80
The material catalogued below mostly dates from the period of Hutchinson's retirement, and relates to his interest in the early history of agriculture in Britain, Greece and the Indian sub-continent.
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