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{{Short description|British botanist (1941–2024)}}
{{about|the Dundee botanist, John Albert Raven|the Cambridge classical scholar and amateur botanist| John Earle Raven|the English cricketer|John Raven (cricketer)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_name = John Albert Raven
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|6|25|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|5|23|1941|6|25|df=y}}
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| nationality = [[British people|British]]
| fields = {{Plainlist|
* [[Botany]]
* [[Ecophysiology]]}}
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
* [[University of Dundee]]
* [[University of Technology Sydney]]}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] (BA, MA, PhD)
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* [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] (1981)<ref name=frse>{{cite web|
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1990)<ref name=frs1/><ref name=frs2/>}}
| website = {{Plainlist|
* {{URL|http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/john.raven}}
* {{URL|http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-raven}}}}
}} '''John Albert Raven''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name=frs1/><ref name=frs2/> [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] (
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==Early life and education==
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 [[
==Career==
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 |
==Research==
Raven's research
==Death==
Raven died at [[Ninewells Hospital]] in Dundee on 23 May 2024, at the age of 82.<ref name=whoswho/><ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Prof. John Albert Raven |url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid021kwUH7P8GcYzeFSikZHBN61JVhRCafQa7doe1jgGdUGVzgwsEUQGziTqE7CiHMVjl&id=100081135931797 |website=Facebook |publisher=International Phycological Society |access-date=31 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Griffiths |first1=Howard |title=John Raven (1941–2024) |url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01008-X |access-date=14 September 2024 |publisher=Cell |date=9 September 2024}}</ref>
==Awards and honours==
Raven was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)]] in 1981.<ref name="symposium"/>
Raven was elected a [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)]] in 1981.<ref name="symposium"/> He was subsequently elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1990|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990]],<ref name=frs2>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117013056/https://royalsociety.org/people/john-raven-12149/|archivedate=2015-11-17|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/john-raven-12149/|title=Professor John Raven FRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{Wayback|url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/|title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies|date=20150925220834}}}}</ref> for which his certificate of election reads: {{centered pull quote|Raven has made important theoretical and experimental contributions at the [[plant cell]] and whole plant levels. His work on [[Hydron (chemistry)|H+]] transport has helped to produce an integrated view of [[pH]] regulation in plants and on the transport of weak [[electrolyte]]s such as [[Plant hormone|plant growth substances]] and certain nutrients into plants. He has carried out important work on [[Chemiosmosis|chemiosmotic mechanisms]]. His work on [[photosynthesis]] and [[Cellular respiration|respiration]] has provided quantitative clarification of the role of [[Cellular respiration|dark respiration]] in plants. He has also provided important information on the suppression of [[photorespiration]] by [[Bicarbonate|HCO₃]] transport in aquatic plants and on the possible [[phylogeny]] of [[vascular plant|vascular land plants]].<ref name=frs1>{{cite web|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6gPrBZ5mY|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27EC%2F1990%2F28%27)|title=Certificate of election EC/1990/28: Raven, John Albert|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|location=London|archivedate=2016-03-31}}</ref>}}▼
He was elected President of the [[Botanical Society of Edinburgh]] for 1986–88.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03746608708685428|doi = 10.1080/03746608708685428|title = Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh|year = 1987|volume = 45|issue = 2|pages = 163–165}}</ref>
He was also a recipient of the Award of Excellence from [[Phycological Society of America]] in 2002<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.psaalgae.org/award-of-excellence/ |title=Award of Excellence |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=Phycological Society of America |publisher= |access-date=1 April 2016 |quote=}}</ref> and made an Honorary Life Member of the British Phycological Society in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/awards/honorary-life-member-british-phycological-society |title=Honorary Life Member of the British Phycological Society |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website=University of Dundee |publisher= |access-date=1 April 2016 |quote=}}</ref>▼
▲Raven was
▲He was also a recipient of the Award of Excellence from [[Phycological Society of America]] in 2002<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.psaalgae.org/award-of-excellence/ |title=Award of Excellence
==References==
{{Reflist|
==Bibliography==
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* {{cite journal|last1=Raven|first1=John A.|author-link=John A. Raven|title=Building botany in Cambridge. 1904–2004: the centenary of the opening of the Botany School, University of Cambridge, UK|journal=[[New Phytologist]]|date=April 2004|volume=162|issue=1|pages=7–8|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01040.x}}
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==External links==
* [http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/john-raven University of Dundee]
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