Background
POLUNIN, Nicholas was born in Checkendon, Oxfordshire. Son of late Vladimir Polunin and Elizabeth Violet (née Hart).
environmentalist author and editor
POLUNIN, Nicholas was born in Checkendon, Oxfordshire. Son of late Vladimir Polunin and Elizabeth Violet (née Hart).
Christ Church, Oxford, and Yale and Harvard Universities.
Fellow, Yale University 1933-1934. Department, of Scientific and Industrial Research, Senior Research. Lecturer in Botany 1939-1947.
University Moderator 1941-1945.
Lecturer (and latterly Senior Research Fellow) New College, Oxford 1942-1947. Haley Lecturer, Acadia University 1950.
Macdonald Professor, of Botany, McGill University, Montreal 1947-1952. Guggenheim Memorial Fellow 1950-1952.
Lecturer in Plant Geography, Yale University 1953-1955 while Project Director United States.A.F.
Professor, of Plant Ecology and Taxonomy and Head Department, of Botany, Director University Herbarium, Faculty of Sciences, Baghdad 1955-1959. Guest Professor University of Geneva 1959-1961, 1975-1976. Professor, of Botany and Head of Department, Faculty of Science (which he established as first Dean) University of Ife, Ibadan 1962-1966.
Founder and Secretary-General Institute Conferences on Environmental Future 1971-1990.
President Foundation for Environmental Conservation since 1974, World Council for the Biosphere since 1984. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Institute of North America, Indian Society of Naturalists, and
Russian Waters 1931, The Isle of Auks 1932, Botany of the Canadian Eastern Arctic (3 vols.) 1940-1948, Arctic Unfolding 1949, Circumpolar Arctic Flora 1959, Introduction to Plant Geography and some related sciences 1960, Elements de Geographic botanique 1967, The Environmental Future led.) 1972, Growth Without Ecodisasters? (editor) 1980, Ecosystem Theory and Application (editor) 1986, Maintenance of The Biosphere (editor with Sir John Burnett) 1990. Also responsible for numerous vols. in former and current series.
Of other learned societies. Botanical Society of America, New’ England and TorTey Botanical Clubs, Asian Society for Environmental Protection, North American Association for Environmental.
Biological and environmental conservation, developing new ideas into plans (e.g. for World Campaign and its adopting Council Foreign The Biosphere, special conferences, series of books, new journals, et cetera), world-wide correspondence and travel (including circumglobal tour in 1987 speaking on ‘Our World Menaced’), international stock markets.
Married 1st Helen Lovat Fraser in 1939 (died in 1973), one son. Married 2nd Helen Eugenie Campbell in 1948, two son one daughter.