Michael Denis Gale FRS (25 August 1943 - 18 July 2009) was a British plant geneticist.[1]
He studied at West Buckland School, Birmingham University, and Aberystwyth University with Hubert Rees. He worked at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, and the John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park.[2] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.[3]
Awards and honours
- 1994 − gold medal from the Royal Horticultural Society
- 1998 − The Royal Society Darwin Medal, jointly with Professor Graham Moore[4]
Works
- Michael D. Gale and Katrien M. Devos, "Comparative genetics in the grasses", Proc Natl Acad Sci. 1998 March 3; 95(5): 1971–1974