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- c 1959 - 1965 (Creation)
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Black and white photograph of N W Simmonds in potato crop field?, probably while working at John Innes.
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Admin History: Norman Willison Simmonds (5 December 1922–4 January 2002): botanist and plant breeder better known in the banana community as the author of Bananas, the standard monograph on the crop, and The Evolution of the Bananas. Head of the Potato Genetics Department at the John Innes Institute, then based in Hertford, where he researched and published on a wide array of topics ranging from tuber physiology to disease resistance. In 1965 he moved to Scotland as Director of the Scottish Plant Breeding Station at Pentlandfield outside Edinburgh. Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (1954-1959), John Innes Institute (1959-1965), Scottish Plant Breeding Station (1976-1982). In 1970, he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1975, the University of Edinburgh made him an Honorary Professor. In 1991, he was the first non-American to receive the Distinguished Economic Award given by the American Society of Economic Botany