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Sir David Anthony King (born 12 August 1939) [1] is a South African-born British chemist, academic, and head of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG). King first taught at Imperial College, London , the University of East Anglia , and was then Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry (1974–1988) at the University of Liverpool .
The Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) is an independent group of scientists which advises on climate change and biodiversity, [1] headed by Sir David King. [2] [3]Its goal is to "provide the global public with regular analysis about efforts to tackle the global heating and biodiversity crises".
Combined with the five-kingdom model, this created a six-kingdom model, where the kingdom Monera is replaced by the kingdoms Bacteria and Archaea. [16] This six-kingdom model is commonly used in recent US high school biology textbooks, but has received criticism for compromising the current scientific consensus. [ 13 ]
Sir John Ashworth, 1977–1981; Sir Robin Nicholson, 1982–1985; Sir John Fairclough, 1986–1990; Sir William Stewart, 1990–1995; Sir Robert May, 1995–2000; Sir David King, 2000–2008; Sir John Beddington, 2008–2013; Sir Mark Walport, 2013–2017; Sir Chris Whitty (interim), 2017–2018; Sir Patrick Vallance, 4 April 2018–2023
Kingdom of Plants 3D is a natural history documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, which explores the world of plants. It was filmed over the course of a year at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew .
This plant, widely distributed across China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia, is used in traditional medicine to treat conditions such as malaria.
In it, he outlined his ideas for the hierarchical classification of the natural world, dividing it into the animal kingdom (regnum animale), the plant kingdom (regnum vegetabile), and the "mineral kingdom" (regnum lapideum). Linnaeus's Systema Naturae lists only about 10,000 species of organisms, of which about 6,000 are plants and 4,236 are ...
Sir Henry De la Beche, founder of the British Geological Survey; William Thomas Blanford (geologist) Kenneth Binmore (economist) Moses Blackman (crystallographer) George C. Clerk (Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist) Sir Charles Vernon Boys (scientist) Donal Bradley (researcher in plastic electronics) Nessa Carey, virologist and author)