Frank Thomas Shutt

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Frank Thomas Shutt, CBE (1859–1940), was a Canadian agricultural chemist who led the Dominion Chemist at the Dominion Experimental Farms in Ottawa. Born in Stoke Newington, London, his family moved to Canada, and he studied at the University of Toronto, earning a BA in 1885 and an MA in 1886. He began working as a chemist at the Dominion Experimental Farms in 1887 and became Dominion Chemist in 1912, focusing on plant nutrition until his retirement in 1933. He traveled to European research stations and knew scientists such as John Bennet Laws, Joseph Henry Gilbert, Daniel Hall and John Russell. The University of Toronto gave him an honorary D.Sc. in 1914. In 1935 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and received the Sir Joseph Flavelle Medal.