Clarence James Hickman

Hickman was born in Birmingham, UK.

At the University of Birmingham, Hickman graduated in botany with a B.Sc. in 1934, an M.Sc. in 1937,{{cite book|title=Calendar|year=1938|publisher=University of Birmingham|page=341|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRILAQAAIAAJ&q=Hickman+++}} and a Ph.D. in 1936. As a postdoc he was from 1936 to 1938 an assistant in the Ministry of Agriculture Service. From 1938 to 1944 he was a research officer at the Plant Pathology Laboratory at Harpenden. At the University of Birmingham, he was a lecturer from 1944 to 1955 and a reader from 1955 to 1960.{{cite book|editor=Desmond, Ray|chapter=Hickman, Clarence James|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA340| page=340 |isbn=9780850668438 | title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers | date=25 February 1994 | publisher=CRC Press }}

For the British Mycological Society he served as the secretary from 1948 to 1952 and as the president for a one-year term from 1957 to 1958. In 1958 his presidential address gave an excellent summary review of the plant-damaging genus Phytophthora, including the biology of its survival and dispersal, the range of its plant hosts, and its physiological specializations.{{cite journal|author=Hickman, C. J.|title=Phytophthora—plant destroyer|journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society|volume=41|issue=1|pages=1–13|year=1958}}{{cite book|title=Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi|isbn=978-0-85199-826-8|publisher=CAB International|year=2008|edition=10th|page=753|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFD4_VFRDdUC&pg=PA753}}

In 1960 Hickman moved to Canada. In the botany department of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) he was a full professor from 1960 until he retired as professor emeritus. At UWO he was also of the head of botany department.{{cite web|url=https://docslib.org/doc/6689661/university-and-middlesex-colleges-faculties-and-courses-botany-university-college-professors-clarence-james-hickman-b-sc-m-sc-ph-d|title=University and Middlesex Colleges Faculties and Courses; Botany — University College Professors: Clarence James Hickman, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D }}

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He died in London, Ontario.

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(43)80022-X|title=The occurrence of Botrytis spp. On onion leaves with special reference to B. squamosa |year=1943 |last1=Hickman |first1=C.J. |last2=Ashworth |first2=D. |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=26 |issue=3–4 |pages=153–157 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(51)80012-3|title=Factors influencing the development of Red Core in strawberries |year=1951 |last1=Hickman |first1=C.J. |last2=English |first2=Mary P. |author2-link= Mary English (mycologist) |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=223–236 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(51)80062-7|title=The susceptibility of strawberry varieties to Red Core |year=1951 |last1=Hickman |first1=C.J. |last2=English |first2=Mary P. |author2-link= Mary English (mycologist) |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=356–359 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0007-1536(59)80054-1|title=A new variety of Phytophthora erythroseptica, which causes a soft rot of pea roots |year=1959 |last1=Bywater |first1=Joan |last2=Hickman |first2=C.J. |journal=Transactions of the British Mycological Society |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=513–524 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1744-7348.1962.tb05990.x|title=Physiologic races of Phytophthora fragariae |year=1962 |last1=Hickman |first1=C.J. |journal=Annals of Applied Biology |volume=50 |pages=95–103 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1146/annurev.py.04.090166.001211|title=Behaviour of Zoospores in Plant-Pathogenic Phycomycetes |year=1966 |last1=Hickman |first1=C. J. |last2=Ho |first2=H. H. |journal=Annual Review of Phytopathology |volume=4 |pages=195–214 }} 1966
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1139/b67-215 |title=Asexual Reproduction and Behavior of Zoospores of Phytophthora megasperma var. sojae |year=1967 |last1=Ho |first1=H. H. |last2=Hickman |first2=C. J. |journal=Canadian Journal of Botany |volume=45 |issue=11 |pages=1963–1981 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1094/Phyto-60-1128|title=Biology of Phytophthora Zoospores |year=1970 |last1=Hickman |first1=C. J. |journal=Phytopathology |volume=60 |issue=7 |page=1128 }}
• {{cite book|editor=Tousson, T. A.|editor2=Bega, Robert V.|editor3=Nelson, Paul E.|chapter=Some Factors Involved in the Accumulation of Phycomycete Zoospores on Plant Roots by Yung Chang-Ho and C. J. Hickman|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8ahwj4H5lEC&pg=PA103| pages=103–108 |isbn=9780520015821 | title=Root Diseases and Soil-borne Pathogens |year=1970 |publisher=University of California Press }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00275514.1974.12019681|title=Studies of Phytophthora citricola, Isolated from Persea americana |year=1974 |last1=Zentmyer |first1=G. A. |last2=Jefferson |first2=Laura |last3=Hickman |first3=C. J. |last4=Chang-Ho |first4=Yung |journal=Mycologia |volume=66 |issue=5 |pages=830–845 |pmid=4437579 }}

• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjwrDwAAQBAJ| title=A Dictionary of Biology | isbn=9781351535694 | last1=Abercrombie | first1=M. | last2=Hickman | first2=C. J. | last3=Johnson | first3=M. L. | date=5 July 2017 }}

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