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Kathleen Bever Blackburn

Blackburn, probably in 1926 when attending the International Botanical Congress at [[Ithaca, New York]]<ref name="SIA">{{cite web |title=Kathleen Beyer Blackburn (1892-1968), sitting in chair |url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290316 |work=Smithsonian Institution Archives |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> Kathleen Bever Blackburn, (1892–1968) was a British botanist best remembered for the 1923 discovery that plant cells have sex chromosomes. Her principal contributions were in plant cytology and genetics. She was also a pioneer of pollen analysis. She taught botany at Armstrong College, Durham University (later renamed King's College, now Newcastle University) from 1918 to 1957. Provided by Wikipedia
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