William Brown (plant pathologist)
British mycologist and plant pathologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about William Brown (plant pathologist)?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
William Brown FRS (17 February 1888 – 18 January 1975) was a British mycologist and plant pathologist, known for his ground-breaking research on fungal physiology and the physiology of plant parasitism by fungi, carried out in 1912–28.[1][2] Born in rural Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, he spent nearly all his career at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, where he created the plant pathology research school in the 1920s, becoming Britain's first professor of plant pathology in 1928, and heading the department of botany (1938–53). He was president of the Association of Applied Biologists and the British Mycological Society. He studied Botrytis cinerea, which causes grey mould in a variety of plants, and various Fusarium species that attack apples.
![Thumb image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/William_Brown_%28mycologist%29_1945.png/220px-William_Brown_%28mycologist%29_1945.png)