已故加拿大皇家学会院士、古植物学家和孢粉学家Norman William Radforth (1912--1999)出生于英国，8岁时移居加拿大。他于1946年担任美国植物学学会古植物学分会长（Chairperson）；1947--1950年连续4年担任《美国植物学报》编辑代表（Editorial Rep. Amer. J. Bot.）。参见：

http://www.botany.org/paleo/officers.html#Former

Former Section Officers, Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of America

Years from 1946 to 1950

∮1 教育背景

1936：B.A.，Universityof Toronto；

1937：M.A., University of Toronto [Adviser:Professor R.B. Thomson]；

1939：Ph.D., University of Glasgow [Adviser: Professor John Walton]；

   1939年，Norman William Radforth在University of Glasgow获得博士学位[导师为著名古植物学家John Walton (1895--1971)] ，论文基本信息如下：

Title: The structural features of the fructifications of some carboniferous fern-like plant  by Radforth, Norman William.

Thesis: 1939

Physical Description: 1 v.

Thesis: Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1939.

Local Note: 7.39

U of G Library Class: Thesis 535

∮2 研究领域

   古植物学、孢粉学等。

∮3 部分论著

   Norman William Radforth主要供职于加拿大McMaster University植物系。1946—1953年，他担任Royal Botanical Gardens （Hamilton）首位主任。1959年当选为加拿大皇家学会院士。部分著作如下：

XIV.—An Analysis and Comparison of the Structural Featuresof Dactylotheca plumosa Artis sp. and Senftenbergia ophiodermatica Göppert sp.

NWRadforth - Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 1938 - Cambridge UnivPress

XXVII.—Further Contributions to our Knowledge of theFossil Schizæaceæ; Genus Senftenbergia

NWRadforth - Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 1939 - Cambridge UnivPress

Suggested classification of muskeg for the engineer

NWRadforth - 1953 - nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

The classification of recently discovered Cretaceous plantmicrofossils of potential importance to the stratigraphy of western Canadiancoals

NWRadforth, GE Rouse - Canadian Journal of Botany, 1954 - NRC ResearchPress

APALYNOLOGICAL STUDY RELATING TO THE PLEISTOCENE TORONTO FORMATION

N. W.Radforth, J.Terasmae

Canadian Journal of Botany, 1960,38(4): 571-580, 10.1139/b60-051

PALEOBOTANICAL STUDIES IN ARCTIC CANADA: I. ARCHAEOPTERISFROM ELLESMERE ISLAND

…,TL Phillips, NW Radforth - Canadian Journal of …, 1965 - NRC ResearchPress

Upper Devonian miospores from the Escuminac Formation,eastern Québec, Canada

WWBrideaux, NW Radforth - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 1970 - NRC ResearchPress

Muskeg and the northern environment in Canada

NWRadforth, CO Brawner - 1977 - agris.fao.org

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参见：

The Obituary of Norman William Radforth (1912--1999) (by Colin McGregor)

Radforth, Norman William 1912 1999.pdf

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