Martin B. Dickman (16 February 1950 – 2 December 2018) was an American plant pathologist. A

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, native, Dickman was born on 16 February 1950, and received his bachelor's of science degree in horticulture from the

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in 1979. He completed his studies with a master's of science and doctorate in plant pathology, both from UH. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the

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, Dickman began teaching at the

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in 1987, where he was named

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Professor in Plant Pathology in 2003. He moved to

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in 2006, accepting the Christine Richardson Professorship in agriculture. Between 2012 and 2017, Dickman served as editor-in-chief of the journal '' Molecular Plant Pathology ''. Dickman was appointed a Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor in 2015. The American Phytopathological Society honored Dickman with the 2017 Noel T. Keen Award for Research Excellence in Molecular Plant Pathology. Over the course of his career, Dickman has been elected fellow of the

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in 1993, and fellow of the

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in 2011, as well as fellow of the

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. He died on 2 December 2018, in Carpinteria, California.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickman, Martin B. 1950 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American botanists 21st-century American botanists Academic journal editors American phytopathologists University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Texas A&M University faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science People from Flushing, Queens Scientists from New York City