Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS[1] (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist.
He then gained research scholarship from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries working at the John Innes Horticultural Institution in Merton Park, Surrey, on chromosome behaviour.
From 1937 to 1938 he went to the US under a Rockefeller scholarship and then returned as head of genetics at the John Innes Institute.
In 1965, as vice chancellor at Southampton, he had a difficult time with student unrest but was able to establish a new medical school for the university.
[2] In 1937 Mather married a fellow botanist, Mona Rhodes (died 1987), and they had one son.