Birth Name:

Ronald Melville

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Mar 12, 1903

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Age:

121

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

20°

Pis

45'

About Ronald Melville

Ronald Melville FLS (12 March 1903 – 6 August 1985) He was an English botanist, based at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He is chiefly remembered for his wartime research into rosehips as a source of vitamin C, prompted by the epidemic of scurvy amongst children owing to the reduced importation of fresh fruit. His research concluded that hips from the common Dog Rose Rosa canina held the highest concentration of the vitamin. In later years, he challenged the two-species taxonomy of the British elms proposed by Richens, identifying five distinct species, several varieties and numerous complex hybrids.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Ronald Melville: Sun 20 Pisces, Moon 7 Virgo, Mercury 26 Aquarius, Venus 15 Aries, Mars 13 Libra, Jupiter 4 Pisces, Saturn 5 Aquarius, Uranus 25 Sagittarius, Neptune 0 Cancer, Pluto 17 Gemini, Sun Square Pluto, Sun Square Uranus, Sun Semi Square Saturn, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Mars, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Mercury Trine Neptune, Venus Opposition Mars, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Trine Pluto, Jupiter Semi Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Trine Neptune

Categories related to Ronald Melville: 1985 deaths, March 12 births, Botanists with author abbreviations, 1903 births, 20th-century botanists, Botanists active in Kew Gardens, British botanist stubs