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{{short description|Welsh palaeobotanist}}
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'''Professor Dianne Edwards''' [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], [[ScD|ScD(Cantab)]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]], [[Fellow of the Linnean Society|FLS]], [[Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales|FLSW]] (born 1942<ref>{{Citation |title=Entry: D. Edwards. Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=43261 |accessdate=16 December 2017 }}</ref>) is a [[palaeobotanist]], who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
'''Professor Dianne Edwards''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]], [[Fellow of the Linnean Society|FLS]], [[Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales|FLSW]] (born 1942<ref>{{Citation |title=Entry: D. Edwards. Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=43261 |accessdate=16 December 2017 }}</ref>) is a [[palaeobotanist]], who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.


==Early life==
==Early life==
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==Discoveries==
==Discoveries==
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Among Edwards's most notable works, are the discovery of vascular tissue in ''[[Cooksonia]]'',<ref name=Edwards1992>{{cite journal
Among Edwards's most notable works, are the discovery of vascular tissue in ''[[Cooksonia]]'',<ref name=Edwards1992>{{cite journal
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Davies, K. L. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 1992
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Davies, K. L. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 1992
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| pages = 683–685
| pages = 683–685
| doi = 10.1038/357683a0
| doi = 10.1038/357683a0
|bibcode = 1992Natur.357..683E }}</ref> the description and analysis of [[stomata]] in early land plants,<ref name=Edwards1998>{{cite journal
|bibcode = 1992Natur.357..683E |s2cid=4264332 }}</ref> the description and analysis of [[stomata]] in early land plants,<ref name=Edwards1998>{{cite journal
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Kerp, H. |author3=Hass, H. | year = 1998
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Kerp, H. |author3=Hass, H. | year = 1998
| title = Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach
| title = Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach
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| pages = 255–278
| pages = 255–278
| doi = 10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255
| doi = 10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255
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}}</ref> and very early liverwort-like plants.<ref name=Edwards1995>{{cite journal
| url = http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/49/suppl_1/255.pdf
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}}</ref> and very early liverwort-like plants.<ref name=Edwards1995>{{cite journal
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Duckett, J. G. |author3=Richardson, J. B. | year = 1995
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Duckett, J. G. |author3=Richardson, J. B. | year = 1995
| title = Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants
| title = Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants
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| pages = 635–636
| pages = 635–636
| doi = 10.1038/374635a0
| doi = 10.1038/374635a0
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|bibcode = 1995Natur.374..635E |s2cid=4361385 }}</ref> The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.<ref name=Glasspool2004>{{cite journal
| url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v374/n6523/abs/374635a0.html
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|bibcode = 1995Natur.374..635E }}</ref> The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.<ref name=Glasspool2004>{{cite journal
|author1=Glasspool, I. J. |author2=Edwards, D. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 2004
|author1=Glasspool, I. J. |author2=Edwards, D. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 2004
| title = Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire
| title = Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire
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| pages = 381–383
| pages = 381–383
| doi = 10.1130/G20363.1
| doi = 10.1130/G20363.1
| url = http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/5/381
| bibcode=2004Geo....32..381G
| bibcode=2004Geo....32..381G
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}}</ref> and ''[[Prototaxites]]''.<ref name=Burgess1988>{{Cite journal | first2 = D.| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society| volume = 97| pages = 189–203| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x| last2 = Edwards| title = A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to ''Prototaxites'' Dawson | first1 = N. D.| year = 1988| last1 = Burgess| issue = 2}}</ref>
}}</ref> and ''[[Prototaxites]]''.<ref name=Burgess1988>{{Cite journal | first2 = D.| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society| volume = 97| pages = 189–203| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x| last2 = Edwards| title = A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to ''Prototaxites'' Dawson | first1 = N. D.| year = 1988| last1 = Burgess| issue = 2}}</ref>


She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as ''[[Danziella]]'' <small>D.Edwards (2006)</small><ref>{{Citation |last=Edwards |first=Dianne |year=2006 |title=''Danziella artesiana'', a new name for ''Zosterophyllum artesianum'' from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=142 |issue=3–4 |pages=93–101 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008 }}</ref> and ''[[Demersatheca]]'' <small>C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996)</small>.<ref>{{Citation |last=Li |first=C.-S. |last2=Edwards |first2=D. |year=1996 |title=''Demersatheca'' Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=93 |issue=1–4 |pages=77–88 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4 |lastauthoramp=yes }}</ref>
She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as ''[[Danziella]]'' <small>D.Edwards (2006)</small><ref>{{Citation |last=Edwards |first=Dianne |year=2006 |title=''Danziella artesiana'', a new name for ''Zosterophyllum artesianum'' from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=142 |issue=3–4 |pages=93–101 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008 }}</ref> and ''[[Demersatheca]]'' <small>C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996)</small>.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Li |first1=C.-S. |last2=Edwards |first2=D. |year=1996 |title=''Demersatheca'' Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=93 |issue=1–4 |pages=77–88 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>


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* Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1996.<ref name=RoyalSoc>[http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1511 Professor Dianne Edwards FRS – The first plants<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1996.<ref name=RoyalSoc>[http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1511 Professor Dianne Edwards FRS – The first plants<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*President of the [[Palaeontological Association]], 1996-1998.<ref>{{Cite book|title=PalAss at 60|last=|first=|publisher=The Palaeontological Association|year=2017|isbn=|location=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/association/palass_at_60.pdf|pages=34}}</ref>
*President of the [[Palaeontological Association]], 1996-1998.<ref>{{Cite book|title=PalAss at 60|publisher=The Palaeontological Association|year=2017|url=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/association/palass_at_60.pdf|pages=34}}</ref>
*Awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for Services to [[Botany]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/1|title="No. 55513"|last=|first=|date=12 June 1999|work=The London Gazette (Supplement)|access-date=|page=8}}</ref>
*Awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for Services to [[Botany]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/1|title=No. 55513|date=12 June 1999|work=The London Gazette (Supplement)|page=8}}</ref>
* Trustee of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], London.<ref name=CardiffUni/>
* Trustee of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], London.<ref name=CardiffUni/>
* 2004 winner of the [[Lyell Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lyell Medal winners|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Award-Winners-Since-1831/Lyell-Medal|website=The Geological Society}}</ref>
* 2004 winner of the [[Lyell Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lyell Medal winners|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Award-Winners-Since-1831/Lyell-Medal|website=The Geological Society}}</ref>
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==External links==
==External links==
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Professor Dianne Edwards CBE, FRS, FRSE, FLS, FLSW (born 1942[1]) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.

Early life

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Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales, and spent much of her time at her parents' bungalow on the Gower Peninsula.[2]

Career

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Edwards' work has centred on early plant fossils, the majority of which have been retrieved from the UK.[3] Her interest in early plants was initiated after she studied plant fossils preserved in three dimensions in the mineral pyrite (fools' gold).[3]

Much of her later work has centred on the Rhynie chert and charcoalified fossils, large and microscopic, from the Welsh borderlands and South Wales.

Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor, and former Head of School within the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at Cardiff University.[4][5]

She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America, and has links with China, consulting for the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and working on fossils from that country.[6]

Discoveries

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Scholia has a profile for Dianne Edwards (Q5271679).

Among Edwards's most notable works, are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia,[7] the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants,[8] and very early liverwort-like plants.[9] The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.[10] She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus,[11] Tortilicaulis[12] and Prototaxites.[13]

She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006)[14] and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).[15]

The standard author abbreviation D.Edwards is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[16]

Distinctions

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References

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  1. ^ Entry: D. Edwards. Index of Botanists, Harvard University Herbarium, retrieved 16 December 2017
  2. ^ Walton, Adam (27 March 2012). "Prof. Dianne Edwards". BBC – Wales – Radio Wales – Science Cafe. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Professor Dianne Edwards FRS – The first plants
  4. ^ "Professor Dianne Edwards - People - Cardiff University". Cardiff University. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Professor Dianne Edwards CBE PhD, ScD(Cantab) FRSE, FLS, FLSE, FLSW, FRS". WISRNet, Women in Science Research Network. 2015.
  6. ^ a b Professor Dianne Edwards
  7. ^ Edwards, D.; Davies, K. L.; Axe, L. (1992). "A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia". Nature. 357 (6380): 683–685. Bibcode:1992Natur.357..683E. doi:10.1038/357683a0. S2CID 4264332.
  8. ^ Edwards, D.; Kerp, H.; Hass, H. (1998). "Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach". Journal of Experimental Botany. 49 (Special Issue): 255–278. doi:10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255.
  9. ^ Edwards, D.; Duckett, J. G.; Richardson, J. B. (1995). "Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants". Nature. 374 (6523): 635–636. Bibcode:1995Natur.374..635E. doi:10.1038/374635a0. S2CID 4361385.
  10. ^ Glasspool, I. J.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (2004). "Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire". Geology. 32 (5): 381–383. Bibcode:2004Geo....32..381G. doi:10.1130/G20363.1.
  11. ^ Edwards, D.; Rose, V. (1984). "Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 88 (1–2): 35–54. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x.
  12. ^ Edwards, D. (1979). "A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed". Palaeontology. 22: 23–52.
  13. ^ Burgess, N. D.; Edwards, D. (1988). "A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 97 (2): 189–203. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x.
  14. ^ Edwards, Dianne (2006), "Danziella artesiana, a new name for Zosterophyllum artesianum from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3–4): 93–101, doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008
  15. ^ Li, C.-S. & Edwards, D. (1996), "Demersatheca Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 93 (1–4): 77–88, doi:10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4
  16. ^ International Plant Names Index.  D.Edwards.
  17. ^ PalAss at 60 (PDF). The Palaeontological Association. 2017. p. 34.
  18. ^ "No. 55513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1999. p. 8.
  19. ^ "Lyell Medal winners". The Geological Society.
  20. ^ "Founding Fellows". Learned Society of Wales. Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  21. ^ "Hans Rosling one of four new honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden". uu.se. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
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