John Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE was a noted British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics.
11 Facts About John Fincham
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John Fincham's father was a self-employed Hertfordshire nurseryman, through whom Fincham developed his interest in botany.
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John Fincham earned his PhD in the Botany School at Cambridge and then did a year's postgraduate research at the California Institute of Technology with Sterling Howard Emerson, whose daughter Ann he married.
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John Fincham obtained the first direct evidence for the "one gene-one enzyme" hypothesis, using mutants of Neurospora crassa deficient in a specific enzyme called glutamate dehydrogenase.
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John Fincham was appointed first as lecturer in botany and then as reader at University of Leicester.
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John Fincham remained at the John Innes until 1966, when he was appointed as professor and head of the newly established Department of Genetics at University of Leeds.
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In 1976, John Fincham was appointed to the Buchanan Chair of Genetics in Edinburgh and was head of the Department of Genetics until 1984.
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John Fincham was Editor of Heredity between 1971 and 1978.
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John Fincham was the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge between 1984 and 1991.
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John Fincham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1978.
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John Fincham was president of The Genetics Society from 1978 to 1981.