Michael Webster Bevan (born 5 June 1952)[2] is a professor at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
He went on to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1979 for work on differentiation in plant tissue cultures.
[5] Bevan returned to the UK at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge[14][15] in 1980, part of the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC).
His nomination reads: Michael Bevan's work laid the foundations of modern day plant molecular biology and genetics.
He played a major role in the multi-national efforts to sequence the Arabidopsis and Brachypodium genomes, which provide key foundations for plant biology.