Douglas Barton Osborne Savile, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Douglas Barton Osborne Savile

Canadian biologist

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1909

Date of Death: 01-Aug-2000

Profession: botanist, mycologist, explorer, ecologist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Douglas Barton Osborne Savile (July 19, 1909 – August 1, 2000) was an Irish-born Canadian mycologist, plant pathologist and evolutionary biologist.
He is particularly renowned for his unique work on the coevolution of host plants and their rust fungi. Doug Savile was born in Dublin, and went to elementary school in tropical Africa and secondary school in England.
He graduated from Macdonald College of McGill University in Quebec in 1934 (M.Sc.), and took 1939 his PhD from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Edwin Butterworth Mains.
His thesis was on nuclear structure and behaviour in species of the Uredinales.
1939–1943 he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
Upon his return, he was employed in the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology at the Central Experimental Farm of the Department of Agriculture.
He mainly worked on diseases of ornamental plants.
From 1949, he went on numerous expeditions to the Canadian Arctic.
He retired from Agriculture Canada in 1974.