Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

22 JULIAN DUNCAN (1933- ) B orn in St. Vincent, Professor Edgar Julian Duncan has lectured at the UWI Department of Life Sciences for over 35 years. During his time at the University, his areas of research included plant anatomy, flowering plant reproductive biology, and plant tissue culture, in which he pioneered research in Trinidad and Tobago. He has taught many students who have also done important research papers on some of the crops grown in T&T. His early research work focused on the problems affecting the Caribbean namely the effect of witches broom, a disease affecting cocoa; the destruction of mites on the Double Chaconia; and diseases of the sweet potato plant. He has written many articles in international, regional and local journals, seminar proceedings and books on local plants and plant tissue culture. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. • 2002 NIHERST Lifetime Achievement Award WILLIAM FREEMAN (1909-1988) B orn in England, he pursued his studies at the University of London and at Cambridge University, where he gained first class honours degrees in Botany. After that he did one year of post- graduate training at Cambridge and another year of training at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA), where he did a paper based on cocoa.