Item GS/8/9/6/26 - Photograph of Geoffrey H Beale on plots at JIHI, Merton

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Black and white photograph of G H Beale on plots at JIHI, Merton, taken by B Schafer

Admin History: Geoffrey Herbert Beale (11 June 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a British geneticist. He founded the Protozoan Genetics Unit, at University of Edinburgh. He worked at the John Innes Institute in the 1930s, under JBS Haldane on a number of plant-genetics projects, working on the inheritance of flower colour in plants, awarded his PhD thesis in 1938. After the war he worked at Cold Harbour Springs, US.