Malcolm Burns
New Zealand agricultural scientist, university lecturer and administrator
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- Bachelors Agriculture University of Auckland
- Masters Agriculture University of Auckland
- PhD Agriculture University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Malcolm McRae Burns was a New Zealand agricultural scientist, university lecturer and administrator. Early life, education, and family Burns was born in Ashley Bank, North Canterbury, on 19 March 1910, the son of Emily Burns and John Edward Burns. He was educated at Rangiora High School, and then studied at Canterbury University College, graduating Master of Science in 1932. He won a doctoral scholarship to the United Kingdom, and completed a PhD, supervised by Albert William Borthwick and William Gammie Ogg, at the University of Aberdeen in 1934; the title of his thesis was A study of soil conditions and vegetation in certain selected areas of northeast Scotland with a view to their economic development. He then spent two years as a research fellow at Cornell University in upstate New York under the auspices of a Commonwealth Fund fellowship, during which time he met and married Ruth Alvina Waugh. The couple went on to have three children, including zoologist Carolyn Burns.
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