Prof Hans Anton Meidner FRSE (January 14, 1914 – September 11, 2001) was a South African botanist and expert in stomata . He was affectionately known as Big H . Meidner also served as leader of the Liberal Party of South Africa for several years.
5-556: Meider may refer to: Hans Meidner (1914–2001), South African plant physiologist Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966), a Jewish German expressionist painter and printmaker Else Meidner, née Meyer (1901–1987), a Jewish German painter, wife of Ludwig Meidner Rudolf Alfred Meidner (1914–2005), a Jewish German-Swedish economist Rehn–Meidner Model , an economic model developed in 1951 Rehn-Meidner Macroeconomics to Neo-liberalism [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
10-789: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Hans Meidner He was born on 14 January 1914 in Berlin and raised in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). He fled Germany in the 1930s due to increasing difficulties and went first to Ireland then to South Africa . In the Second World War he fought for the Allies with the South African forces serving in North Africa, Italy and Greece. In Greece he
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20-587: Was actively involved with the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum . In 1978 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers were Sir William D. P. Stewart , William Whigham Fletcher , James A. MacDonald , Robert M. M. Crawford, and Malcolm Wilkins . He retired in 1982 and moved to Northampton and died there on 11 September 2001. He was married to Olga and had two children, Hans and Hilary. This article about
25-730: Was taken prisoner of war by the communist partisans. After the war he studied Botany at the University of Natal graduating BSc then MSc then gaining a doctorate (PhD). He became a lecturer in 1951. In 1960, in the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre he was imprisoned as a communist sympathiser. He was detained for three months without charge. He moved to England to lecture at Reading in 1964 before settling in Stirling in Scotland as Professor of Botany at Stirling University . A keen amateur artist he
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