Lionel John Farnham Brimble (16 January 1904 in Radstock, Somerset – 15 November 1965 in London) was a botanist, author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and editor of the journal Nature.
He was born in 1904, the son of a blacksmith and innkeeper [1] at Radstock, Somerset, where his early childhood was said to be very happy.
[2] In 1939,[4] on the retirement of Sir Richard, Brimble and his colleague A. J. V. Gale were appointed joint editors of Nature magazine.
The partnership lasted 23 years, during which Nature published seminal papers in palaeoanthropology, nuclear energy, holography, lasers and the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.
[3] At the end of 1961, Gale retired from the joint editorship, leaving Brimble as sole editor.