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Botanists
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which has had, since the Middle Ages, substantial participation by women. A *Erik Acharius (1757–1819) * Julián Acuña Galé (1900–1973) * Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838) *Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859) * Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) * Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634) *William Aiton (1731–1793) * Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809) * Ruth F. Allen (1879–1963) *Carlo Allioni (1728–1804) * Lucile Allorge (b. 1937) *Prospero Alpini (1553–1617) * Benjamin Alvord (1813–1884) * Adeline Ames (1879–1976) * Janaki Ammal (1897–1984) *Eliza Frances Andrews (1840–1931) *Agnes Arber (1879–1960) *Giovanni Arcangeli (1840–1921) * David Ashton (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specialises in this field. "Plant" and "botany" may be defined more narrowly to include only land plants and their study, which is also known as phytology. Phytologists or botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of Embryophyte, land plants, including some 391,000 species of vascular plants (of which approximately 369,000 are flowering plants) and approximately 20,000 bryophytes. Botany originated as history of herbalism#Prehistory, prehistoric herbalism to identify and later cultivate plants that were edible, poisonous, and medicinal, making it one of the first endeavours of human investigation. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to Monastery, monasteries, contained plants possibly having medicinal benefit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Botanists By Author Abbreviation
__NOTOC__ A * Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017) * A.A.Burb. – Andrew A. Burbidge (floruit, fl. 2016) * A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959) * A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908) * A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim (1839–1920) * A.Agostini – Angela Agostini (born 1880) * A.A.Ham. – Arthur Andrew Hamilton (1855–1929) * A.A.Hend. – A. A. Henderson, Andrew Augustus Henderson (1816–1876) * A.Ames – Adeline Ames (1879–1976) * A.Anderson – Alexander Anderson (botanist), Alexander Anderson (1748–1811) * A.Arber – Agnes Arber (1879–1960) * Aarons. – Aaron Aaronsohn (1876–1919) * Aase – Hannah Caroline Aase (1883–1980) * A.Barbero – Andrés Barbero (1877–1951) * A.Bassi – Agostino Bassi (1773–1856) * A.Baytop – Asuman Baytop (1920–2015) * Abbayes – Henry Nicollon des Abbayes (1898–1974) * Abbiatti – Delia Abbiatti (born 1918) * Abbot – John Abbot (entomologist), John Abbot (1751–c. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julián Acuña Galé
Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé (27 February 1900 – 24 July 1973) was a Cuban born botanist who served as director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Santiago de Las Vegas. His research centered on phytopathology and on introduction of new, improved varieties of food and forage plants while his field work produced numerous herbarium collections; among them, many new species he described, or were named for him. Acuña Galé was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and died in Mexico City, Mexico. In 1980, '' Acunaeanthus'' was published, which is a genus of flowering plants in the family of Rubiaceae. The genus which is endemic to Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ... was named in honour of Julián Acuña Galé. References BibliographyWorldCat Botanists wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Backeberg
Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. Biography He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and published a number of books on cacti, including the six-volume, 4,000-page ''Die Cactaceae'', 1958–1962, and the ''Kakteenlexikon'', first appearing in 1966 and updated posthumously. Although he collected and described many new species and defined a number of new genera, much of his work was based on faulty assumptions about the evolution of cacti and was too focused on geographic distribution; many of his genera have since been reorganized or abandoned. The botanist David Hunt is quoted as saying that he "left a trail of nomenclatural chaos that will probably vex cactus taxonomists for centuries.", p. 98 Nevertheless, his observations regarding the subtle variations among cacti have proven useful for hobbyists, who continue to use many c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Ames
Adeline Sarah Ames (October 6, 1879 – February 11, 1976) was an American mycologist who specialized in the study of mycelium. Biography Born October 6, 1879, in Henderson, York County, Nebraska, Ames was the eldest of four children of Elwyn Ames and Hettie Owen Ames. She attended the University of Nebraska, (B.A., A.M., 1903) and received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1913. She died in Long Beach, California, on February 11, 1976. Career In 1913, Ames served as Assistant Forest Pathologist in the Department of Plant Industry in Washington, D.C. In 1918, she also worked with George Francis Atkinson in Tacoma, Washington collecting fleshy fungus flora. From 1920 to 1941, she was a biology professor at Sweet Briar College. Scientific work In February 1913, while a graduate student at Cornell University, she studied the collection of Polyporaceae at the New York Botanical Garden, with special reference to the species occurring in the United States. In 1913, she p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aiton
William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist. Aiton was born near Hamilton, Scotland, Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published ''Hortus Kewensis'', a catalogue of the plants cultivated there. He is buried at nearby St. Anne's Church, Kew. A second and enlarged edition of the ''Hortus'' was brought out in 1810–1813 by his eldest son, William Townsend Aiton. Aiton is commemorated in the Specific epithet (botany), specific epithet ''aitonis''. In 1789, he classified the Sampaguita plant to the ''Jasmine, Jasminium'' genus and also named it as ''Arabian Jasmine'' because it was believed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Georg Agardh
Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist. Early life and career He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at Lund University. Agardh designed the current 1862 blueprints for the botanical garden Botaniska trädgården in Lund. In 1849, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878. It is said that the naturalist Mary Philadelphia Merrifield learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him. Australian female collectors and Mueller Ferdinand von Mueller, as the Government Botanist of Victoria from 1853 to 1896, played an important role in facilitating the study of Australian flora, including algae. Mueller established an extensive network of collectors across Australia, many of whom were women. He actively en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospero Alpini
Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 15536 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of the botanical garden of Padua. He wrote several botanical treatises which covered exotic plants of economic and medicinal value. His description of coffee and banana plants are considered the oldest in European literature. The ginger-family genus ''Alpinia'' was named in his honour by Carl Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus. Biography Born at Marostica, a town near Vicenza, the son of Francesco, a physician, Alpini served in his youth for a time in the Duchy of Milan, Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua. After taking his doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo San Pietro, a small town in the Paduan territory. But his tastes were botanical and influenced by Melchiorre Guilandino, and to extend his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Atkins
Anna Atkins (; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph. Early life Atkins was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1799. Her mother, Hester Anne Children, "didn't recover from the effects of childbirth" and died in 1800. Anna was close to her father John George Children, a renowned chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist. Anna "received an unusually scientific education for a woman of her time." Her detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father's translation of Lamarck's ''Genera of Shells''. In 1825, she married John Pelly Atkins, a London West India merchant, later High Sheriff of Kent, sheriff, and proponent of railways; during this same year, she moved to Halstead Place, the Atkins family home in Halstead, Kent, Halstead, near Sevenoaks (district), Sevenoaks, Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel E
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Armen Takhtajan
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced takh-tuh-JAHN; 10 June 1910 – 13 November 2009), was a Soviet- Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. His other interests included morphology of flowering plants, paleobotany, and the flora of the Caucasus. He was one of the most influential taxonomists of the latter twentieth century. Life Family Takhtajan was born in Shushi, Russian Empire, present-day disputed Nagorno-Karabakh, on 10 June 1910, to a family of Armenian intellectuals. His grandfather Meliksan Takhtadzhyan Petrovich had been born in Trabzon, Ottoman Empire and was educated in Italy, on the island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, an Armenian enclave, spoke many languages and worked as a journalist. He died in Paris in 1930. His father, Leon Meliksanovich Takhtadzhyan (1884–1950), was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ashton (botanist)
David Hungerford Ashton OAM (6 July 1927 – 22 November 2005) was an Australian botanist and ecologist. He was the world expert on '' Eucalyptus regnans'' forests, claimed to be the most important timber species in Australia. Ashton was born in Melbourne. He received his Bachelor of Science in 1949, and a PhD in 1957. He taught for thirty years at the University of Melbourne, from 1962 to 1992, influencing several generations of Victorian botanists and foresters. His professional expertise ranged from angiosperms, pteridophytes, bryophytes, lichens and fungi A fungus (: fungi , , , or ; or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and mold (fungus), molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as one .... He was also able to synthesise many biological problems ecologically, especially in Mountain Ash forests including geology, plant and animal species interactions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
