Diana Beresford-Kroeger, 2010 WINGS Elected Fellow

"Apply the virtue of simplicity." — Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Scientist, Author

Born: 1944-07-25

Hometown: Merrickville, Ontario, Canada

Education: Botany, Medical Biochemistry, Organic and Nuclear Chemistry, Surgery

Achievements

Discoveries: Cathodoluminescence under electron bombardment

Expeditions: Botanical Explorations in Europe and North America

Biography

 Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry.  She lives in Ontario, Canada.  Beresford-Kroeger is a native of Ireland who has bachelor's degrees in medical biochemistry and botany, and has worked as a Ph.D.-level researcher at the University of Ottawa school of medicine, where she published several papers on the chemistry of artificial blood.  She calles herself a renegade scientist, however, because she tries to bring together aborigiional healing, Western medicine, and botany to advocate an unusual role for trees.  

(Bio from UMich Press)

Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Good tea, lens, scalpel, collecting bags, folding shovel

Heroes: Archbishop Desmond Tutu