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Colin Louis Avern Leakey (13 December 1933, Cambridge, England – 29 January 2018, Lincoln, England) was a leading plant scientist in the United Kingdom, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Biology, and a world authority on beans.
Colin Leakey. Colin was born in 1933 in Cambridge to Louis Leakey and Frida (Louis’s first wife). He has spent many years in Uganda. Colin lives with his wife Susan in Lincolnshire in England and had three daughters, Emma, Tessa and Tamsin.
Feb 19, 2018 · Professor Colin Leakey was a true pioneer of beans and other food crops. This article, The Nine Lives of Colin Leakey, was first published in Pulse magazine in 2017 and surveys the many aspects of his extraordinary life.
- Nick Saltmarsh
Dr Colin Leakey was seconded from the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, to Uganda’s Kawanda Research Station as a member of the Colonial , (later Commnwealth) Pool of Plant...
Oct 6, 2022 · It follows seed keeper Tamsin Leakey as she strives to sustain the beans bred by her father. Colin Leakey was a world leading botanist, himself the son of palaeontologist Louis Leakey whose renowned research proved that mankind evolved from east Africa.
Louis and Mary Leakey were monumental figures in the field of paleoanthropology and their groundbreaking discoveries helped shape our understanding of human origins. Now, the Leakey family is synonymous with the study of human evolution, with three generations making important contributions to science.
Jul 21, 2022 · Since visiting the Leakey home in May 2021, Northern England Coordinator Charlie has had the pleasure of speaking regularly with Tamsin about her father, Professor Colin Leakey and his beans.
