| Code | PX1071 |
| Dates | 1872-1967 |
| Person Name | Blackman; Vernon Herbert (1872-1967); Cytologist and plant physiologist |
| Surname | Blackman |
| Forenames | Vernon Herbert |
| Epithet | Cytologist and plant physiologist |
| Activity | Museum Staff: Educated at City of London and King's College schools; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital medical school (1889) and then botany at St John's College, Cambridge (1892), where he studied plant physiology under Francis Darwin; began studies in plant fertilization while an undergraduate, graduated 1895; worked in Bonn for a year under Strasburger; appointed to BM(NH) in 1896 and worked on the funghi collections, particularly rust fungi; contributed to 'New Phytologist'; taught at University of London, including courses on vegetable physiology at UCL; left the Museum (1907) and was appointed Professor of Botany at University of Leeds; appointed Professor of plant physiology and pathology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (1911); elected FRS (1913); Institute of Plant Physiology set up at Imperial under Blackman; published on plant growth, including the 'efficiency index' - the increase in weight per existing unit of weight per unit of time; Head of Department of Botany at Imperial (1929-37); sat on the noard of number of advisory committees; edited Annals of Botany (1922–47). |
| Relationships | Son of Frederick Blackman, doctor, and Catherine Elizabeth née Frost. Brother of Frederick Frost Blackman (1866–1947); married (1) Edith Delta Emett (d 1940), modeller of wax models of plants and animals in 1901; married (2) Thérèse Elizabeth née Panisset in 1941. |