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Professor Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales and but spent much of her time on Gower, where her parents had a bungalow<ref>{{cite web|website=Radio Wales|publisher=BBC|accessdate=15 July 2015}}http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml</ref>. |
Professor Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales and but spent much of her time on Gower, where her parents had a bungalow<ref>{{cite web|website=Radio Wales|title=Professor Dianne Edwards|publisher=BBC|accessdate=15 July 2015}}http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml</ref>. |
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Revision as of 13:29, 15 July 2015
Dianne Edwards CBE ScD FRSE FLSW FRS (born 1942[1]) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
Early life
Professor Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales and but spent much of her time on Gower, where her parents had a bungalow[2].
Career
Edwards's work has centered 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.
Professor Edwards is a research professor at the University of Cardiff in the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences[4].
She also has links with China, consulting for the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and working on fossils from that country.[5]
Discoveries
Among Edwards's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia,[6] the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants,[7] and very early liverwort-like plants.[8] The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.[9] She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus,[10] Tortilicaulis[11] and Prototaxites.[12] She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006)[13] and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).[14]
Distinctions
- Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996.[3]
- Trustee of the Natural History Museum, London.[5]
- 2004 winner of the Lyell Medal.[16]
- Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and in July 2010 was appointed as its inaugural Vice-President for Science, Technology and Medicine.
- PhD honoris causa at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2014.
References
- ^ Index of Botanists, Harvard University Herbarium, retrieved 2011-04-07, entry for D. Edwards
- ^ "Professor Dianne Edwards". Radio Wales. BBC.
{{cite web}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Missing or empty|url=(help)http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml - ^ a b c Professor Dianne Edwards FRS - The first plants
- ^ Women in Science http://womeninscience.net/?page_id=134.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b Professor Dianne Edwards
- ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Edwards, D.; Kerp, H.; Hass, H. (1998). "Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Botany. 49 (Special Issue): 255–278. doi:10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Edwards, D. (1979). "A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed". Palaeontology. 22: 23–52.
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with
|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.xinstead. - ^ 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
- ^ 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
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|lastauthoramp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ International Plant Names Index. D.Edwards.
- ^ "Lyell Medal winners". The Geological Society.
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