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Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
British–Canadian mycologist

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

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British–Canadian mycologist
A.K.A.
Buller
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Male
Place of birth
Moseley
Place of death
Winnipeg
Age
69 years
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Biography

Arthur Henry Reginald Buller FRSC FRS (August 19, 1874 – July 3, 1944) was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust.

Academic career

Mason College, now the University of Birmingham

Born in Moseley, Birmingham, England, he was educated at Queen's College, Taunton. He then studied at Mason College, which later became the University of Birmingham, (BSc in 1896), the University of Leipzig (PhD), and the University of Munich. He was awarded a DSc by the University of Birmingham. He worked briefly for the Naples Zoological Station. From 1901 to 1904, he was a Lecturer in Botany at University of Birmingham. He came to Canada in 1904 and founded the Botany Department at the University of Manitoba and was the first Professor of Botany and Geology at the University of Manitoba, and served as Head of the Botany Department until his retirement in 1936.

Poetry

He also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch, including this one on Einstein's special theory of relativity:

Honours

He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1909 and became its President in 1927. In 1929, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal and in 1937 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was a life member of the Mycological Society of America.

He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Calcutta, University of Manitoba, and University of Pennsylvania. The Buller Building at the University of Manitoba, built in 1932, is named in his honour.

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