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Sir Peter Crane FRS (born 18 July 1954) is the current President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Peter Crane’s work focuses on the diversity of plant life: its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use. He served as the Carl W. Knobloch Jr., Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the Yale School of the Environment) from 2009 until 2016.
Peter Salovey, President of Yale, said that Peter Crane “positioned F&ES as an exemplar of diversity, global perspective, and civic engagement”. Peter Crane is known internationally for his work on the diversity of plant life – its origin, fossil history, current status, conservation and use.
May 1, 2013 · Revered for its beauty and its longevity, the ginkgo is a living fossil, unchanged for more than 200 million years. Botanist Peter Crane, who has a written what he calls a biography of this unique tree, talks to Yale Environment 360 about the inspiring history and cultural significance of the ginkgo.
Peter Crane pioneered the study of minute, previously unrecognised fossil flowers, large numbers of which have since been discovered at sites all over the world. Their analysis has made it possible for the first time systematically to trace the evolution of the first flowering plants during the Cretaceous period, between 70 and 140 million ...
Peter Crane is President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, an estate of Rachel Lambert Mellon that includes an exquisite garden as well as an exceptional library focused on the history of plant science, plant exploration, and the development of gardens and landscape design.
Peter Crane is a botanist and former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, where he expanded the organisation’s scientific, conservation and public engagement programmes.
