1. Alexander Stuart Watt FRS was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist.
12 Facts About Alexander Watt
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Alexander Watt graduated as MA and BSc from the University of Aberdeen in 1913.
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Alexander Watt then went to University of Cambridge to work on beech forest under Arthur Tansley and obtained a MS in 1919.
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From working with Tansley, Alexander Watt became part of an academic lineage descended from Thomas Henry Huxley and Charles Darwin.
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Alexander Watt was appointed lecturer of forest botany and forest zoology at the University of Aberdeen.
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Alexander Watt continued his research on southern English beech forest in vacations and obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1924.
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Alexander Watt accepted to be visiting lecturer at the University of Colorado in 1963 and visiting professor at the University of Khartoum in 1965.
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Alexander Watt was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society in 1975.
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Alexander Watt's 1947 paper Pattern and process in the plant community in the Journal of Ecology, being his presidential address to the British Ecological Society, is a true citation classic in scientific ecology.
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Alexander Watt published a long series of scientific papers in the New Phytologist under the collective heading "Contributions to the ecology of bracken".
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Alexander Watt was a posthumous co-author of the substantive account on bracken in the Biological Flora of the British Isles.
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Alexander Watt wrote a series of preliminary drafts that were extended and updated by his co-author.