Jake MacMillan

John MacMillan FRS (13 September 1924 – 12 May 2014), commonly known as Jake MacMillan, was a British scientist who worked at the interface between biology and chemistry. He became a leading authority on the plant growth hormones, gibberellins.[1]

Jake MacMillan

FRS
Born(1924-09-13)13 September 1924
Died12 May 2014(2014-05-12) (aged 89)
SpouseAnne MacMillan
Children3
Awards
  • President of the International Plant Growth Substance Association (1973-1976)
  • Flintoff Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry (1978)
  • Elected Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Physiology (1978)
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1978)
  • Research Medal, International Plant Growth Substance Association (1982)
  • Elected Distinguished Foreign Scholar of Mid-America Association of State Universities (1987)
  • Elected Honorary Member of the Japanese Society for Chemical Regulation in Plants (1987)
  • American Society of Plant Physiology, Charles Reid Barnes Award (1988)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Natural Product Chemistry (1988)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Hugo-Muller Lecturership and Medal (1988-1989)
  • Elected Honorary Member of the Botanical Society of America (1989)
  • Wilson Baker Lecturer, University of Bristol (1990)
  • Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences (1991)
  • Pergamon Phytochemical Prize (1995)
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorJ. D. Loudon
Academic work
DisciplineOrganic chemistry
Institutions

Early life and education

MacMillan was born on 13 September 1924 in Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Despite several offers to play professional football, ge started his undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow where he focused on chemistry but took botany as a subsidiary subject. In 1946, he graduated with a first class honours degree. He continues playing as a semi-professional footballer for Third Lanark. MacMillan continued education and started his PhD at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of J. D. Loudon.

Research and career

Following the completion of his PhD, Jake was deterred by the low academic salaries and instead joined the ICI Akers Laboratory near Welwyn.

Jake joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 1963, working there until 1990 when he moved to Long Ashton Research Station. He returned to the University of Bristol in 2003 as emeritus professor and senior research fellow.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978 and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1991.

References
  1. Simpson, Thomas J.; Willis, Christine L. (2020). "John (Jake) Macmillan. 13 September 1924—12 May 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 70.


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