Joseph Hutchinson
{{short description|British biologist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|03|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = UK
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|01|16|1902|03|21|df=y}}
| death_place = UK
| citizenship = British
| fields = Biology
| awards = Royal Medal {{small|(1967)}}
Fellow of the Royal Society
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Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson FRS{{Cite journal | last1 = Arnold | first1 = M. H. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1991.0014 | title = Joseph Burtt Hutchinson. 21 March 1902 – 16 January 1988 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 37 | pages = 278–297| year = 1991 | doi-access = free }} (21 March 1902 – 16 January 1988) was a British biologist. He was Drapers Professor of Agriculture at the University of Cambridge from 1957 to 1969.
He served as the president of The Uganda Society between 1952 and 1953
Biography
He was educated at Bootham School,{{cite book|author=Bootham Old Scholars Association|title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England|publisher=BOSA|year=2011}} York and at St John's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1951{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=10&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27hutchinson%27%29|title=Library and Archive Catalogue|publisher=Royal Society|access-date=30 January 2011}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1967 "In recognition of his distinguished work on the genetics and evolution of crop-plants with particular reference to cotton."{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/honors/968/000100668|title=Royal Medal|access-date=6 December 2008}}
His FRS candidature citation said that: "His contributions are outstanding among advances culminating in a notably improved and simplified classification of the genus Gossypium on a genetic basis and an admirably developed theory of the evolution of its species. His work is central in the very fine tradition of British workers which, by remarkable theoretical insight, combined with technical skill, has placed Cotton among the best studied of the world's cultivated crops. By his genetical work, coupled with exceptionally wide study of variability of field crops (especially Cotton), in the West Indies, India and Africa, the scientific foundations of the art of practical plant improvement have been substantially strengthened." He was president of The Uganda Society in 1952–1953.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
He was knighted in 1956. He presided over the 1966 British Association meeting.{{cite journal|title=President for 1966 of the British Association, Sir Joseph Hutchinson C.M.G., F.R.S.|journal=Nature|date=4 September 1965|volume=207|issue=5001|page=1070|doi=10.1038/2071070b0|last1=Hutchinson|first1=Joseph|doi-access=free}} He died on 16 January 1988.
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