Vernon Herbert Blackman

British botanist (1872-1967).

Vernon Herbert Blackman (8 January 1872 – 1 October 1967) was a British botanist who specialised in fungal cytology and plant physiology, described as "one of the chief architects" of 20th-century British plant physiology. His research focused on sexual reproduction in fungi, growth in plants, and various practical agricultural topics. He was professor of botany at the University of Leeds (1907–11), and then spent the remainder of his career at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, as professor of plant physiology and pathology (later plant physiology) (1911–37), director of