Kenneth V. Thimann, English-American botanist and microbiologist (died 1997)

Kenneth V. Thimann

English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist

Kenneth Vivian Thimann was an English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist known for his studies of plant hormones, which were widely influential in agriculture and horticulture. He isolated and determined the structure of auxin, the first known plant hormone. He spent…