Early Life and Education
Born into a farming family in Waitara in the Taranaki, Yeates attended Stratford District High School (where he won an Entrance Scholarship (later called the University Entrance Scholarship)) and then Victoria College (now Victoria University of Wellington, then part of the University of New Zealand) in Wellington. He completed a B.Sc and then a M.Sc in Botany with first class honours. He obtained a Jacob Joseph Scholarhsip. He then completed the first PhD from the University of New Zealand. He left for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied chromosomal counts in plants, starting in 1925. He returned to New Zealand in July 1927 and was awarded his Trinity College PhD in 1931, having completed his research in parallel with his teaching commitments at the newly-created Massey College (now Massey University, then also part of the University of New Zealand) outside Palmerston North.
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