Stan Woodell

[1] Stanley Reginald John Woodell was born in Shepherd's Bush, London.

An undergraduate at Hatfield College, Woodell was a member of the Durham University Exploration Society.

[2] He studied the pollination biology of the genus Primula for his PhD at the same university.

Woodell was a King George VI Fellow at North Carolina State University (1956–57).

A black poplar tree (Populus nigra) was planted at Wolfson College on 22 November 2004 in his memory.