John Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE was a British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics.
Occupation
geneticist, mycologist
Born
August 11, 1926
Died
February 9, 2005
Overview
John Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE (11 August 1926 – 9 February 2005) was a noted British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics.
Education and personal life
Fincham was a son of Robert Fincham (b. 26 November 1898) and Winifred Emily Western (b. 16 July 1899). His father was a self-employed Hertfordshire nurseryman, through whom Fincham developed his interest in botany. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School, then at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. He earned his PhD in the Botany School at Cambridge and then did a year's postgraduate research at the California Institute of Technology with Sterling Howard Emerson, whose daughter Ann he married.
Career and research
