Background
He was born in Hall Green, Yarnley to Percy Brian (1881-1945), a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide Wragg.
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Percy Brian
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He graduated from King"s College, Cambridge in 1931. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in 1936 and Doctor of Science in 1951, and he was elected a Fellow of Queen"s College, Cambridge in 1968.
Career
He was critical to the development of plant pathology and natural antibiotics such as Gibberellin and Griseofulvin. His early education was at King Edward"s School, Birmingham. His first employment was as Assistant Mycologist at Long Ashton Research Station where he worked from 1934-1936.
In 1936 he began at Imperial Chemical Industries"s facility at Jealott"s Hill before moving in the late 1930s to their Butterwick Research Laboratories (later renamed Akers) as Mycologist and in 1946 was promoted to Head of Microbiology.
During this period, in 1962, he was on a team which discovered new antibiotics produced by fungi. He was appointed to the Regius Chair of Botany at University of Glasgow in 1962, leaving six years later to become Head of the Cambridge Botany School.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1958. In 1964 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1959 and 1965.
President of the Association of Applied Biologists in 1961. And President of the Society of General Microbiology in 1965.
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Royal Society.
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United Kingdom