John Monteith

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John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS, born September 3, 1929 in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a leading authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops, forestry, and animal production.

His pioneering work, with Howard Penman, in evapotranspiration, is applied worldwide as the "Penman-Monteith" equation. Their model for predicting evapotranspiration is recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Monteith's research on the role of the environment in agriculture, the physics of crop microclimate, physiology of crop growth and yield, radiation climatology heat balance in animals, and instrumentation for measuring physical and physiological variables in agriculture has been published in journals throughout the world.

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Awards

  • Awarded Rank Prize for Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry, 1989

Publications

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