What’s in a Name?

• Roan Sage, a plant biologist at the University of Toronto
• Arnold Bloom, a plant biologist at the University of California, Davis
• Canadian director for the plant biosafety office is Stephen Yarrow
• Mary Desjardins, executive director, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
• Bob Flowerdew, British gardener, author, television presenter
• Ed Snodgrass, green roof guru and author of Green Roof Plants
• Barrie E. Juniper, Emeritus Reader in Plant Sciences, University of Oxford
• Sarah Greenleaf, University of California, Davis, bee specialist
• Jennifer Sprout at Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
• Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois, a founding member of the consortium that sequenced the honeybee genome
• Will Flower is a spokesman for Michigan-based Republic landfill company
• Sara Oldfield, secretary general for Botanic Gardens Conservation International
• Shanta Barley has written several botanically-based articles for New Scientist itself. But it was back in November 1994 that New Scientist spied Jen Hunt of the University of Manchester stating in the October 1994 issue of The Psychologist: “Authors gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname.” Hunt’s example was an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology (vol. 49, p. 173) by J. W. Splatt and D. Weedon. Over subsequent years, the magazine has published many, many such associations which they call ‘nominative determinism.’ Some of those associated with our field of endeavour include:
  • Yuki Ichinose. a plant pathologist at Okayama University in Japan who specializes in pollen
• Zoologist J. Acorn had a Canadian TV show called The Nature Nut
• The publicity officer of the International Union of New Varieties of Plants is Barry Greengrass
• Australian ranch manager Warren Breeding complained that rabbits had reached plague proportions
• Adrian Tilling once won the Australian National Ploughing Championship
• Robin Pollard is a senior forestry officer on the Isle of Man, U.K.
• Raymond Bush is author of Tree Fruit Growing, Sophie Wormser of About Silkworms and Silk
• Ms Grubb who worked in the entomology section of the Australian research organization CSIRO
• Christopher Bird of Cambridge University studies rooks
• Kirsi Peck is wildlife advisor to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• Colin Flood is a director of Meteorological Forecasting
• Charles Sprinkle is or was working at the US National Weather Service,
• J. Snow is on the editorial board of the Journal of Meteorology

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