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Valentine Jackson Chapman (14 February 1910 – 5 December 1980) was a New Zealand botanist, university professor, and conservationist. Biography He was born in Alcester, Warwickshire, England, on 14 February 1910. Chapman was an associate of Auckland's Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson and was a member of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board between 1955 and 1956
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Charles Louis Gilly (1911-1970) was an American botanist who was an expert in the flora of Central and South America. He, alongside Wendell Holmes Camp, coined the term biosystematics. Gilly was born in Fairfield, Iowa
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Louisa Isabella Chaulk Baudinet, also known as Lucy Baudinet or Miss Baudinet (7 April 1825 – 13 February 1901) was an Australian botanical collector. Life Louisa Isabella Chaulk Baudinet was born on 7 April 1825 in London to William Chaulk (later Baudinet) (c. 1799–1865), and Augusta Louisa née Baudinet (1805–1873)
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Chen Feng Huai (Chinese: 陈封怀, 1900–1993), also spelled Chen Feng Hwai, was a Chinese botanist known primarily for his contributions to the construction and administration of botanical gardens in China. Chen was born in 1900. He was the great grandson of Chen Baozhen, governor of Hunan
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Chen Hang (Traditional Chinese: 陳杭; Simplified Chinese: 陈杭) was born in 1931. She is a botanist and horticulturist. Career Chen was born in Guangde County, Anhui Province
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Wee-Lek Chew (周偉力; born 1932) is a Singaporean-born botanist. Career Chew was born in Singapore in 1932. He did his B
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Robert James (Bob) Chinnock (born 3 July 1943) is a New Zealand-born Australian botanist who worked at the State Herbarium of South Australia as a senior biologist. He retired in 2008 but still works as an honorary research associate. His research interests include Eremophila and related genera, the weedy Cactaceae, especially those in the genus Opuntia, and Australian ferns and clubmosses
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Dr William Andrew Clark FRSE (1911-1983) was a Scottish botanist known for collections largely in the Outer Hebrides. He was an expert on spermatophytes and the flora of north-east England. Life He was born in Girvan in Ayrshire the son of Thomas Clark
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Robert Connell Clarke is a US American agronomist and ethnobotanist born in 1953, specialized in the study of the cannabis plant. He has often been credited for having taken part in many developments of the licit hemp and cannabis sectors in the United States and the Netherlands since the 1980s. Biography Clarke graduated in 1977 from the University of California Santa Cruz
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Alfred Hyde Cockayne (23 May 1880 – 21 October 1966) was a New Zealand botanist, agricultural scientist and administrator. He was born in Dunedin, or Oamaru, New Zealand, on 23 May 1880. He was the son of another noted botanist Leonard Cockayne
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Paul Runar Collander (1 May 1894 Vyborg – 25 May 1973 Helsinki) was a Finnish botanist. He was an adjunct professor of plant physiology at the University of Helsinki from 1935 to 1939, and professor of botany from 1939 to 1961. He gained international acclaim for his research on the effect of molecular size and solubility ratios on the ability of substances to penetrate the cell membrane
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Michelangelo Console (Palermo, 24 July 1812 – Palermo, 13 May 1897) was an Italian botanist primarily known for his work on cacti. Life and work Michelangelo Console was professor of botany at the Palermo Botanical Garden, where he worked with French botanist Charles Antoine Lemaire. Console described the cactus genus Myrtillocactus in 1897, shortly before his death
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John Hubert Craigie, (December 8, 1887 – February 26, 1989) was a Canadian plant pathologist. He is known for his "research and development of rust-resistant cereals which have been of vital significance to Canada as a cereal producing nation. " Biography Born in Merigomish, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Craigie studied at Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Manitoba
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Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 – ?) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author. Written works Dale, Elizabeth (1900). Scenery and Geology of the Peak of Derbyshire
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Atulananda Das (1879–1952) was an Indian botanist and forester noted for working for the Assam region of the Indian Forestry Service and describing species in the families Ericaceae, Ebenaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Myrtaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Helwingiaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Lauraceae, Acanthaceae, Fagaceae, and Symplocaceae. In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Species described Agapetes kanjilali Das (1935)
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Peter James de Lange (born 1966) is a New Zealand botanist at Unitec Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and has received the New Zealand Botanical Society Allan Mere award and the Loder Cup for his botanical work. Two species are named in his honour
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John Dearness (13 May 1852 – 6 December 1954) was a Canadian educator, botanist, and mycologist. Largely self taught he conducted scientific studies in plant pathology leading to B. T
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Ananda Chandra Dutta (Assamese: আনন্দ চন্দ্ৰ দত্ত) (8 February 1923 – 16 January 2016) was an Indian botanist of Assam. He was born at Chekonidhara village of Jorhat. He started his career as a teacher in Mariani Middle English High School in 1944–45 and then joined the Tocklai Tea Research Institute in 1947
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Pauline Dy Phon (ប៉ូលីន ឌី ផុន) (1933-21 May 2010) was a Cambodian botanist who specialized in the flora of Southeast Asia. Coming to study in France, she obtained her license in 1959 at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. She became a teacher and researcher at the University of Phnom Penh, though in 1975 she was forced to stop work because the Khmer Rouge came to power
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Franz Engel (1834 in Röbel – 1920 in Neubrandenburg) was a German explorer and naturalist. He traveled extensively in South America in the years 1857–63 and published the results of his explorations in several volumes, including Studien unter den Tropen Amerikas (“Studies among the American tropics,” 2d ed. , 1879), ‘Aus dem Pflanzerstaate Zulia’ (“From the plantation state of Zulia,” 1881)
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Dr Edward Wyllie Fenton FRSE FLS (1889–1962) was a Scottish botanist. He was President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 1944–45. Life He was born in Aberdeen on 4 November 1889, the son of Edward W
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Franz Firbas (born 4 June 1902 in Prague; died 19 February 1964 in Göttingen) was a German botanist who taught at the University of Göttingen. From 1952 to 1964, he was director of their Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut. Former students include Otto Ludwig Lange, Gerhard Lang, and Heinz Ellenberg
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Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer (9 July 1874 – 19 October 1950) was a botanist born in Bombay to European parents. He worked principally in the Indian Forest Service. Life Fischer was born in Bombay, India on 9 July 1874
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John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 – 11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897. Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892). Fitch also contributed to Curtis's Botanical Magazine from 1878, joining a select group of illustrators such as William Kilburn, James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards, William Jackson Hooker and Walter Hood Fitch
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Dr Charles Edward Foister FRSE (17 August 1903–23 July 1989) was a British botanist and plant pathologist. He was Director of Scottish Agricultural Scientific Services in Edinburgh from 1957. He specialised in lichens and fungi
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William Douglas Francis (6 March 1889 – 2 January 1959) was an Australian botanist. Born in Bega, New South Wales, at the age of 17 he moved with his father Alfred, and brother Frederick, from Wollongong, New South Wales, where he attended Wollongong Superior Public School, to Kin Kin, Queensland. It was here that he was able to satisfy his strong interest in natural history while helping his father and brother on the farm
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Franz Gerhard Eschweiler (1796 – 4 July 1831) was a German botanist. Eschweiler was born in Cologne in 1796, the son of a district judge. After graduating from high school in Cologne, he first studied law in Bonn, but then switched to natural sciences and continued his studies at the University of Landshut
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Professor Li-kuo Fu (or Li Kuo Fu) (born 1934) worked for the Institute of Botany at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He is the author of several treatises on Chinese plants, notably the China Red Data Book of rare and endangered species in the 1990s. In 1973, he took part in the Qinghai - Tibet Expedition, during which he discovered and named the Tibetan elm, Ulmus microcarpa
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Noriaki Fukuyama (福山 伯明, Fukuyama Noriaki, 1912 – 1946) was a Japanese botanist and orchidologist. He died in TaiwanDuring his short life, Dr. Fukuyama described over a hundred new species of orchids from Micronesia, the Ryukyus and Taiwan
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Catherine Gage (18 May 1815 – 16 February 1892) was an Irish botanist, botanical and ornithological illustrator. Life Catherine Gage was born in County Down on 18 May 1815, the daughter of Rev. Robert Gage and Catherine Boyd
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Helmut Gams (1893–1976) was a central European botanist. Born in Brno, he moved to Zürich as a child. He studied at the University of Zurich, being awarded a PhD in 1918
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Jean Hector Paul Auguste Ghesquière (born 1888) was a Belgian botanist. Work He collected plant specimens in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Uganda. He deposited many of his specimens in the herbarium at the Botanic Garden Meise (then called the National Botanic Garden of Belgium)
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Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (1884–1969) was a British botanist and the first scientific director of the Cambridge Botanic Garden (1921–1950), being succeeded by John Gilmour. The second son of the colonial governor Sir Thomas Gilbert-Carter and Susan Laura Hocker he was educated at Tonbridge School and Edinburgh University. After further studies at Marburg University and Cambridge University, he served as a botanist on the Botanical Survey of India during the First World War
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Grace Gobbo (born 1974 in Tabora, Tanzania) is an ethnobotanist studying traditional medicines used by healers in Tanzania. Gobbo works to interview healers and record the plants they use in an effort to identify indigenous plants for medicinal uses. Career Gobbo has worked on several projects for the Jane Goodall Institute
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Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014) was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97. Career Ph
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Robert Fiske Griggs (August 22, 1881, in Brooklyn, Connecticut – June 10, 1962), was a botanist who led a 1915 National Geographic Society (NGS) expedition to observe the aftermath of the Katmai volcanic eruption. National Geographic expeditions In June 1917, Griggs and the eager NGS explorers rushed to the Katmai coast with the express goal of exploring the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. They quickly worked their way up through the ash-filled Katmai River valley and over the pass
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Gavino Gulia (1835–1889) was a Maltese botanist and author of books on flora of that island. References Obituary in: "Obituary Notes" . Popular Science Monthly
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Roman Gutwinski (alternative spelling: Roman Gutwiński, 1860–1932) was a phycologist. He worked at least some of his life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Works Prodromus florae algarum galiciensis
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Holenarasipur Yoganarasimham Mohan Ram (24 September 1930 - 18 June 2018) was an Indian botanist who influenced numerous students as a professor of Botany at Delhi University. His research areas included studies in floral biology, plant physiology, insectivorous plants and on the family Podostemaceae. He was a brother of H
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Ingebrigt Severin Hagen (1852- 8 June 1917) was a Norwegian physician and botanist who specialized in the taxonomy of the bryophytes. Born in Trondheim to shoemaker father Ingebrigt Hagen and Caroline Elizabeth née Helle, Hagen was academically gifted and graduated in arts from the Trondheim Cathedral School in 1870. He worked under Professor Worm Müller on physiological chemistry from around 1874–79 at Oslo
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Hiroshi Hara (原 寛, Hara Hiroshi, January 5, 1911 – September 24, 1986) was a Japanese botanist. Hara was born 1911 in Nagano. He studied at The University of Tokyo and became a professor there in 1957
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Kanesuke Hara (原 摂祐, Hara Kanesuke, 1885–1962) was a Japanese botanist and mycologist. Publications Miyake, I. ; Hara, K
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Alfred Douglas Hardy (1870 – 1958) was an Australian amateur collector of freshwater algae specimens. He worked as a draftsman and botanical officer for the Victorian Forest Commission until his retirement in 1936. He was also an amateur naturalist, initially with wide interests but later specialising in freshwater algae
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Sumihiko Hatsushima (初島 住彦, Hatsushima Sumihiko, September 1906 – January 22, 2008) was a Japanese botanist. In scholarly works using the Latin alphabet, his name is generally romanised as "Sumihiko Hatusima" following the "Kunrei" system. Hatsushima was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1906
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John Gregory Hawkes OBE FLS (27 June 1915 in Bristol – 6 September 2007 in Reading) was a British botanist, Mason Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham. He was a student at Cambridge University Botany School where obtained his Ph. D
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Rodney John Francis Henderson (born 1938) is an Australian botanist, specialising in taxonomy who worked for more than 48 years for the Queensland Public Service, 41 of those years at the Queensland Herbarium until he retired in 2002. The families he studied included the Solanaceae, Liliaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Rubiaceae. There are about 3,500 labelled specimens in Australian herbaria collected by Henderson, sometimes with other botanists
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Kenneth D. Hill (6 August 1948 – 4 August 2010) was an Australian botanist, notable for his work on eucalypts, the systematics, evolution and conservation of the genus Cycas, as well as on botanical informatics. He was born in Armidale, New South Wales
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Robert Willard Hodgson (1893–1966) was an American botanist, taxonomist and agricultural researcher located in the California State, an exceptional citrus and avocado expert. He was a co-author of The Citrus Industry book, emeritus professor of University of California, and dean of the College of Agriculture. References External links Socialarchive
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Mitsuru Hotta (堀田 満, Hotta Mitsuru) (23 July 1935 – 8 July 2015) was a Japanese botanist best known for his research on Araceae. Hotta was born in Osaka, Japan in 1935. He graduated from the Agricultural Department of Osaka Prefecture University in 1960
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Rev Theophilus Houlbrooke FRSE LLB (1745–1824) was a British minister remembered mainly as an amateur botanist. He served as President of the Liverpool Athenaeum from 1809 until 1813. Life He was born in Lichfield in Staffordshire in 1745
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Hiroshi Inoue (井上 浩, Inoue Hiroshi, March 30, 1932 – December 29, 1989) was a Japanese botanist specializing in bryology. Inoue's botanical publications are from Japan. He described or recognized many species of liverworts
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Keisuke Ito (伊藤 圭介, Itō Keisuke, February 18, 1803 – January 20, 1901) was a Japanese physician and biologist. He was born in Nagoya. As a doctor, Ito developed a vaccination against smallpox
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Emil Erwin Alfred Ritter von Janchen-Michel (born 15 May 1882 in Vöcklabruck; died 10 July 1970 in Vienna) was an Austrian botanist. Life and work He earned his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Vienna. He was scientifically active at the Botanical Institute of the University
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Edward Charles Jeffrey (May 21, 1866 – April 19, 1952) was a Canadian-American botanist who worked on vascular plant anatomy and phylogeny. Biography E. C
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David Lloyd Jones (born 1944) is an Australian horticultural botanist and the author of many books and papers, especially on Australian orchids. Jones was born in Victoria and in his youth was a student at Burnley Horticultural College, then the University of Melbourne, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. He was employed for 14 years by the Victorian Department of Agriculture where he helped develop programs involving the nutrient requirements of Australian native plants
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Suzanne Jovet-Ast (born 1914) was a French botanist, who worked principally at the National Museum of Natural History, France. Life Suzanne Ast was born in Paris, France, on 8 February 1914. She received her Baccalauréat (1932) from Lycée Voltaire (Paris) and obtained her doctorate (1943) while at the National Museum of Natural History
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Dr. K. Ramiah (1892-1988) was an Indian parliamentarian
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Ryōzō Kanehira (金平 亮三, Kanehira Ryōzō, January 1, 1882 – November 27, 1948) was a Japanese botanist. Kanehira undertook botanical expeditions into Taiwan, Peru, Palau, Kiribati, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea as well as describing the flora of Japan. His main collection and types are held at the herbarium of Kyushu University, with duplicate specimens distributed to A, B, BO, BISH, FU, GH, K, L, LA, NY, P, PNH, TI, US, and Z (Index Herbariorum acronyms)
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Upendra Nath Kanjilal, Upendranath Kanjilal or U. N. Kanjilal (1859–1928) was an Indian botanist and forest officer
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Alison Kellow is a botanist and research scientist from Australia, and a lecturer at La Trobe University. Kellow completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Melbourne, and postgraduate studies in environmental science at Monash University. She completed her doctoral degree in Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Adelaide
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George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980) was a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a botanist with an interest in orchids. The standard author abbreviation G. C
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Yojiro Kimura (木村 陽二郎, Kimura Yōjirō, 1912–2006) was a Japanese botanist, known for his classification of monocotyledons, and of Japanese species of Hypericum. Selected publications Kimura, Y. 1953
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Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff (26 March 1809 in Klein Watkowitz in Kreis Stuhm – 1879) was a German botanist. He was an older brother to bryologist Hugo Erich Meyer von Klinggräff (1820–1902, H. Klinggr
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Hugo Erich Meyer von Klinggräff (7 June 1820 in Klein Watkowitz, Stuhm – 3 April 1902 in Paleschken, Stuhm) was a German botanist, who was a specialist in bryophytes. He was the brother of botanist Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff, with whom he often collaborated. In 1826, he moved with his parents to a homestead located not far from Agram, Croatia
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Charles Knight (c. 1808 – 3 September 1891) was a New Zealand doctor, public servant and botanist. He was born in Rye, Sussex, England in c
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Karen Koch is a plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida. She is a professor in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (PMCB) Program, Horticultural Sciences Department, and Genetics Institute at University of Florida. Research interest Koch's lab is best known for its research on sugar-responsive gene expression and the capacity for this process to alter form and function of plants
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Joséphine Thérèse Koster (23 June 1902 – 22 June 1986) was a botanist. She named many plants in the genera Piora, Vernonia, and others. The standard author abbreviation J
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Shigeo Kurata (倉田 重夫, Kurata Shigeo) is a Japanese botanist and Nepenthes taxonomist whose work in the 1960s and 1970s contributed much to the current popularity of these plants. His best-known work is the 1976 guide Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu. Nepenthes kurata was named in his honour
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Syo Kurokawa (黒川 逍, Kurokawa Shō, July 15, 1926–September 16, 2010) was a noted Japanese lichenologist and 1994 recipient of the Acharius Medal. He studied under Mason Hale and Yasuhiko Asahina. Eponyms Several lichen species have been named to honour Kurokawa
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Victor Wilhelm Lindauer (1888–1964) was a New Zealand phycologist, collector and teacher. The son of New Zealand painter Gottfried Lindauer, he was born in 1888 in Auckland, and grew up in Woodville, spending a considerable part of his boyhood in the native bush. He trained as a teacher and after two years service in WWI with the US Army, he returned to New Zealand
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Alma Theodora Lee (née Melvaine; 12 April 1912 — 20 October 1990) was an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist who worked at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and CSIRO. She is notable for raising the standard of systematic botany in Australia, and for her revisions of Swainsona and Typha. She also studied the Fabaceae with colleagues
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Pieter Willem Leenhouts (1926 – 1 March 2004) was a Dutch botanist. He worked at the Rijksherbarium from 1947 until his official retirement in 1991, and then was an honorary member of staff until 1999. He was editor of Blumea from 1973 to 1999
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Sir Enoch Bruce Levy (19 February 1892 – 16 October 1985) was a botanist from New Zealand who became widely known for his work on improving pastures. Biography Levy was born in Auckland in 1892, and lived on a farm until he was 18 years old. He joined the New Zealand Department of Agriculture in 1911, and studied science at Victoria University in Wellington from 1926 to 1928
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Ping Tao Li (Chinese: 李秉滔; pinyin: Lǐ Bǐngtāo; born 1936) is a Chinese botanist who co-authored articles in the Flora of China. Publications Loganiaceae, (co-author A J M Leeuwenberg) in Wu, Z. & Raven, P
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Torkel Knutsen Lillefosse (5 July 1868 – 9 January 1946) was a Norwegian botanist. He was born at Strandebarm in Hordaland, Norway. After working as a wood carver and gardener, he turned to botany
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Kurt Lohwag (1913–1970) was an Austrian botanist and mycologist. The son of the Austrian mycologist Heinrich Lohwag (1884 - 1945). He was educated at the University of Vienna
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Allen Lowrie (10 October 1948 - 30 August 2021) was a Western Australian botanist. He was recognised for his expertise on the genera Drosera and Stylidium. Lowrie, originally a businessman and inventor, first experienced the carnivorous flora of Western Australia in the late sixties and studied it as an amateur
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Carlyle August Luer (August 23, 1922 – November 9, 2019) was a botanist specializing in the Orchidaceae. His specialty interest was the Pleurothallidinae (Genus Pleurothallis) and allied species. Born to Carl & Vera Luer, he was raised in Alton, Illinois and later attended Washington University in St
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Alfred Wyndham Lushington (22 September 1860 – 25 March 1920) was an Anglo-Indian dendrologist born in Allahabad, India and who worked as a forest officer in the Madras Presidency. Publications 1910. The Genus Citrus
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Susana Aurora Magallón Puebla is a Mexican biologist and scientist. Her research areas are evolutionary biology and bioinformatics, mainly focused on plant evolution. In 2019 she was appointed director of the UNAM Institute of Biology for the period 2019–2023
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Édouard Ferdinand Ernest Maire (28 February 1848 – 19 August 1932) was a French missionary and plant collector in China. He served as Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Yunnan. Between 1905 and 1916 he sent the plant material he collected to various herbaria in Europe
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Maria Florianivna Makarevych (1906–1989) was a Soviet botanist and lichenologist noted for studying lichens of the Carpathian region, and for publishing multiple influential monographs. The genus Marfloraea is named in her honor. The standard author abbreviation Makar
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Robert Owen Makinson (born 1956) is an Australian botanist. He has published some 65 botanical names. See also Taxa named by Robert Owen Makinson
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Genkei Masamune (正宗 厳敬, Masamune Genkei, 1899–1993) was a Japanese botanist. Biography Masamune Genkei worked in Formosa and then, after World War II, at Kanazawa University. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo and Taiwan, as well as for the identification of large numbers of new species
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Jinzō Matsumura (松村 任三, Matsumura Jinzō, February 14, 1856 – May 4, 1928) was a Japanese botanist. Biography Matsumura was born in Ibaraki Prefecture, of a samurai family. He took a great interest in botany as a young man
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James D. Mauseth is an American botanist and botanical author. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin
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Donald John McGillivray (20 August 1935 – 17 August 2012) in New South Wales, Australia, usually known as D. J. McGillivray, was an Australian botanical taxonomist
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William Graham McIvor (1824 or 1825 - 8 June 1876) was a Scottish gardener and superintendent of the Neilgherry Cinchona plantations in Ootacamund, India who was responsible for the successful introduction of cinchona plants in the Nilgiris in the 1860s. McIvor was born in Dollar in Scotland where his father John had settled after working to establish a nursery garden at Crieff. McIvor trained in horticulture and arboriculture and worked at Kew before taking up in 1848, a position in southern India as superintendent of the yet to be established Ootacamund botanical garden
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Hisao Migo (御江 久夫 Migo Hisao, 1900–1985) was a Japanese botanist. Hisao Migo was employed at the Shanghai Science Institute from 1933 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. During his employment at the Institute he made several botanical collecting trips to southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang
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John Miller (1715–c. 1792), also known as Johann Sebastian Müller, was a German engraver and botanist active in London. Born in Nuremberg, he trained under Johann Christoph Weigel and came to England in 1744 with his brother Tobias–an engraver of architecture–and lived there the rest of his life
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Raymond John Moore (1918–1988) was a Canadian botanist best known for his researches into Buddleja hybridization at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Virginia, USA, and later at the Canadian Department of Agriculture Plant Research Institute in Ottawa, where he specialized in cytogenetics. [1] Publications Moore, R. J
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Sergei Leonidovich Mosyakin (born 30 November 1963) is a Ukrainian botanist. Biography Born on November 30, 1961, in Kyiv. From 1978 to 1983, he studied at the Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute (now known as the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University), specializing in Biology and Foreign Languages
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Takenoshin Nakai (中井 猛之進, Nakai Takenoshin, November 27, 1882, Gifu Prefecture – December 6, 1952) was a Japanese botanist. In 1919 and 1930 he published papers on the plants of Japan and Korea, including the genus Cephalotaxus. During the Japanese occupation of the (former) Dutch East Indies (now: Indonesia) Takenoshin Nakai was between 1943 and 1945 the director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Batavia (now: Bogor Botanical Gardens in Bogor
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Kenneth Raymond Newbey (11 June 1936 – 24 July 1988) was a plant ecologist, botanical collector and horticulturist. Born in Katanning, Western Australia, he collected over 12000 specimens from the Albany-Esperance, Wheatbelt, goldfields and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. He died in White Gum Valley in 1988
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Francis John Newhook (16 November 1918 – 1 December 1999) was the head of the School of Plant Pathology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was the first plant pathologist at the university, from 1966 (sponsored by New Zealand Forest Products) as an Associate Professor, and from 1969 a personal chair. Previously he was a scientist at the DSIR
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Nguyên Tiên Bân (born 1939) was a Vietnamese botanist, who worked principally at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology. Life Bân was a Professor and served as the Head of the Botany Department at the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources in Hanoi. He worked primarily on Annonaceae and Magnoliaceae
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Vladislav E. Niedzwiecki (also spelled Niedzwetsky and Niedzwetzky) (1855 – 1918) was a Russian lawyer and amateur naturalist. Born in Mogilev Province, Niedzwiecki graduated from the University of Kazan and settled in (one source states 'exiled to' ) Vernoe (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), in 1884, initially working as a lawyer before becoming the Acting Secretary of the Statistics Committee, Semirechensk
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Jisaburo Ohwi (大井 次三郎, Ōi Jisaburō, 18 September 1905 – 22 February 1977) was Japanese botanist. He was a distinguished member of the Faculty of Science of Kyoto Imperial University. He is perhaps best known for his 1953 Flora of Japan (日本植物誌, Nihon Shokubutsushi)
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Kintaro Okamura (岡村 金太郎, Okamura Kintarō, May 5, 1867 - August 21, 1935) was a Japanese botanist and educationalist (1867 - 1935). He is the author of important studies about seaweeds. He's also well known for his educational books collection, the Ohraimono
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Shûtai Okamura (1877-1947) was a Japanese bryologist, noted for his identification of over 80 species. Works Okamura, Shûtai (1915). Contributiones novae ad floram bryophyton Japonicam (in Latin)
Shûtai Okamura