Walter Gardiner, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Gardiner

British botanist

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1859

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1941

Profession: botanist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Walter Gardiner, FLS, FRS (1 September 1859 – 31 August 1941) was a British botanist.
He was educated at Bedford School and at Clare College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow there and Lecturer in Botany at the University.
He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890.
He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1898: "For his researches on the protoplasmic connection of the cells of vegetable tissues and on the minute histology of plants."