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'''John Albert Raven''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name=frs1/><ref name=frs2/> [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] (born 25 June 1941 – 23 May 2024)<ref name=whoswho/> iswas a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Botany|botanist]], andwho was [[emeritus]] [[professor]] at [[University of Dundee]] and the [[University of Technology Sydney]].<ref>{{cite web|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904213026/http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/john.raven|archivedatearchive-date=2014-09-04|url=http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/john.raven|title=Professor John Raven|publisher=[[University of Technology Sydney]]}}</ref> His primary research interests liewere in the [[ecophysiology]] and [[biochemistry]] of marine and terrestrial [[primary production|primary producers]] such as [[plant]]s and [[algae]].<ref>{{cite book

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Raven was born on 25 June 1941,<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | title=RAVEN, Prof. John Albert | id = U31939 | volume = 2016 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref> and brought up on a farm in northwest Essex and educated at the [[Friends' School, Saffron Walden]]<ref name=newp>{{citation| title = ''Profile'' John A. Raven |year = 2017| work = New Phytologist|volume = 215|pages = 514-515|url =https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.14651 |accessdate = 19 September 2023}}</ref><ref name=whoswho/> and [[ St John’sJohn's College, Cambridge ]], receiving a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[Botany]] in 1963.<ref name="roysocevent">{{cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org/events/2012/bioenergetics/ |title=Bioenergetics and the major evolutionary transitions |date= |work= |publisher=The Royal Society |accessdateaccess-date=2013-03-23}}</ref> He remained at Cambridge to complete a [[PhD]] in Botany (plant biophysics) in 1967, under the supervision of [[Enid MacRobbie]], and specialising in the [[membrane transport]] processes and [[bioenergetics]] of giant-celled algae.<ref name="piktalk">{{cite web |url=http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/greencyclesii/programme/23.5.2011/raven/raven-cv |title=Keynote Presentations at the GREENCYCLES II Summer School |date= |work= |publisher=Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |accessdateaccess-date=2013-03-23|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309201114/https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/greencyclesii/programme/23.5.2011/raven/raven-cv|archivedatearchive-date=2016-03-09}}</ref><ref name=dundeebio>{{cite web|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910192821/http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-raven|archivedatearchive-date=2015-09-10|url=http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-raven|publisher=dundee.ac.uk|title=Professor John Raven FRS FRSE: Interactions among resources in the growth of phytoplankton|date=30 August 2013 }}</ref>

After a period as a lecturer at Cambridge, Raven moved to the University of Dundee in 1971, and he remained at Dundee until his formal retirement in 2008. He was appointed there to a [[Chair (academic)#The United Kingdom.2C Ireland and other English speaking countries|personal chair]] in 1980, and was the John Boyd Baxter Professor of Biology from 1995 until 2008.<ref name="symposium">{{cite web |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/2008/prsept08/johnraven.html |title=Symposium to mark retiral of Professor John Raven |date=11 September 2008|publisher=University of Dundee |accessdateaccess-date=2013-03-23|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331230602/http://app.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/2008/prsept08/johnraven.html|archivedatearchive-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> In 1978, Raven was a co-founding editor of the influential [[peer review]]ed [[scientific journal]] ''[[Plant, Cell & Environment]]'' with [[Paul Gordon Jarvis|Paul Jarvis]],<ref name=pce2>{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Harry|title=Paul Gordon Jarvis, FRS: co-founding editor ofPlant, Cell & Environment|journal=Plant, Cell & Environment|volume=36|issue=5|year=2013|pages=907–908|issn=014077910140-7791|doi=10.1111/pce.12080|pmid=23421651|doi-access=free}}</ref> David Jennings, Harry Smith<ref name=smith>{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Harry|title=Editorial|journal=Plant, Cell and Environment|volume=1|issue=1|year=1978|pages=1–11|issn=0140-7791|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3040.1978.tb00738.x}}</ref><ref name="Raven2015">{{cite journal|last1=Raven|first1=John A.|title=Harry Smith, FRS: co-founding editor and first Chief Editor ofPlant, Cell & Environment|journal=Plant, Cell & Environment|volume=38|issue=8|year=2015|pages=1453–1454|issn=014077910140-7791|doi=10.1111/pce.12567|pmid=25991437|doi-access=free}}</ref> and Bob Campbell.<ref name=bob>{{cite web |title=Wiley-Blackwell Announces Retirement of Bob Campbell |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330101626/http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-107769.html |date=2013-02-28 |archivedatearchive-date=2016-03-30 |url=http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-107769.html |publisher=wiley.com}}</ref>

Raven's research investigatesinvestigated [[algae|algal life forms]] in the upper levels of the ocean, which underpin [[marine ecosystem]]s and [[Carbon cycle|recycle carbon]]. He has explored how [[carbon dioxide]], light and trace minerals interact to limit [[primary production|primary productivity]] in algae.<ref name=frs2/> Raven hashad research interests that range<ref name="symposium"/> from organism-level bioenegetics,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |year=1970 |title=Exogenous inorganic carbon sources in plant photosynthesis |journal=Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=167–220 |publisher= |doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.1970.tb01629.x |urls2cid=86332656 }}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013}}--></ref> biochemistry<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |year=2000 |title=Land plant biochemistry |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B |volume=355 |issue=1398 |pages=833–846 |publisher= |doi=10.1098/rstb.2000.0618 |urlpmc=1692786 |pmid=10905612}}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013}}--></ref> and [[ecophysiology]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |last2=Hurd |first2=C.L. |year=2012 |title=Ecophysiology of photosynthesis in macroalgae |journal=Photosynthesis Research |volume=113 |issue=1-31–3 |pages=105–125 |publisher= |doi=10.1007/s11120-012-9768-z |urlpmid=22843100 |s2cid=5744231 }}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013}}--></ref> through to wider-scale [[biogeochemistry]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |last2=Wollenweber |first2=B. |last3=Handley |first3=L.L. |year=1992 |title=Ammonia and ammonium fluxes between photolithotrophs and the environment in relation to the global nitrogen-cycle |journal=New Phytologist |volume=121 |issue=1 |pages=5–18 |publisher= |doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.1992.tb01087.x |urldoi-access=free }}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013}}--></ref> [[palaeoecology]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |last2=Yin |first2=Z.H. |year=1998 |title=The past, present and future of nitrogenous compounds in the atmosphere, and their interactions with plants |journal=New Phytologist |volume=139 |issue=1 |pages=205–219 |publisher= |doi=10.1046/j.1469-8137.1998.00168.x |urldoi-access=free }}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013}}--></ref> and even [[astrobiology]].<ref>{{cite journal |authorauthor1=O'Malley-James, J. T.; |author2=Raven, J. A.; |author3=Cockell, C. S. |year=2012 |title=Life and Light: Exotic Photosynthesis in Binary and Multiple-Star Systems |journal=Astrobiology |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=115–124 |publisher= |doi=10.1089/ast.2011.0678 |urldisplay-authors=etal |pmid=22283409|arxiv=1110.3728 |bibcode=2012AsBio..12..115O |s2cid=43997271 }}<!--|accessdate=27 March 2013|display-authors=etal}}-></ref> To date, he hasHe published more than 300 refereed research papers,<ref name=scopus>{{Scopus|7103305526}}</ref> over 50 book chapters, the book ''Energetics and Transport in Aquatic Plants'' (1984),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Raven |first1=J.A. |year=1984 |title=Energetics and Transport in Aquatic Plants |edition=1 |publisher=Krieger Publishing Company |url= |isbn=0-8451-2203-7 }}</ref> and, together with [[Paul Falkowski]], the influential textbook ''Aquatic Photosynthesis'' (1997, 2007).<ref>{{cite book | lastlast1=Falkowski | first1=P.G. | last2=Raven | first2=J.A. | year=2007 | title=Aquatic Photosynthesis | edition=2 | publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] | url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8337.html | isbn=978-0-632-06139-16 }}</ref> In 2005, Raven led a [[Royal Society of London|Royal Society]] review of the state and implications of ongoing [[ocean acidification]].<ref name=raven05>Raven, J. A. ''et al.'' (2005). [http://royalsociety.org/Report_WF.aspx?pageid=9633 Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.] Royal Society, London, UK.</ref> {{As of|2016}}, Raven iswas active in both research<ref name="RavenBeardall2016">{{cite journal|last1=Raven|first1=John A.|last2=Beardall|first2=John|title=The ins and outs of CO2|journal=Journal of Experimental Botany|volume=67|issue=1|year=2016|pages=1–13|doi=10.1093/jxb/erv451|pmid=26466660|pmc=4682431}}</ref> and teaching, despite officially retiring in 2008 when he warned: {{centered pull quote|Life has survived many rapid and large amplitude environmental changes over billions of years, but we should not be complacent about the biological effects of current anthropogenic influences on the environment. At the most selfish level, we depend on the continued provision of ‘ecosystem'ecosystem services’services' for our quality of life.<ref name="symposium"/>}}

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