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675,500 | Eleftherios Phedias Diamandis (born October 8, 1952) is a Greek Cypriot-Canadian biochemist who specializes in clinical chemistry. He is Professor & Head of Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also Division Head of Clinical Biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital and Biochemist-in-Chief at the University Health Network, both of which are also located in Toronto | Eleftherios Diamandis |
675,501 | George H Dodd was a biochemist who specialised in the study and production of perfumes and pheromones.
He died in December 2020.
Career
George Dodd studied at Trinity College Dublin, and obtained his D | George H. Dodd |
675,502 | Lorentz Eldjarn (23 March 1920 – 11 February 2007) was a Norwegian biochemist and medical doctor.
He was born in Måsøy, but settled at Haslum. He studied medicine at the University of Oslo and was associated with the Norwegian Radium Hospital | Lorentz Eldjarn |
675,503 | William Charles Evans F. R. S | William Charles Evans |
675,504 | Sigmund Fraenkel or Sigmund Fränkel (1868 – 1939) was a chemist who lived and worked in Austria, and is notable for being the head of the Ludwig-Spiegler-Stiftung in Vienna from 1904 and his work in the field of Physiological chemistry, notably on the chemistry of the thyroid gland. Fraenkel was born on 22 May 1868 in Krakau, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which later became part of Poland. He studied at the University of Vienna under Ernst Ludwig (1842-1915) and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, in Prague under Karl Hugo Huppert (1832–1904) and in Freiburg im Breisgau | Sigmund Fraenkel |
675,505 | Heinz Rudolf Gibian (30 March 1916 – 13 May 1995) was a German biochemist, who was noted for his research on steroid hormones.
He was a senior researcher at the drug research department of Schering AG and was later a member of the company's senior management. He was also an honorary Professor of biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin | Heinz Gibian |
675,506 | David W. Green ( - 1976) was a crystallographer at the Medical Research Council Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
David W | David W. Green (biochemist) |
675,507 | Christian Haass (born 19 December 1960 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German biochemist who specializes in metabolic biochemistry and neuroscience.
Haass studied biology in Heidelberg from 1981 to 1985. From 1990 on he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dennis Selkoe at Harvard Medical School, where he worked from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor | Christian Haass |
675,508 | Shlomo Hestrin (Hebrew שלמה הסטרין; born 1914; died 2 February 1962) was an Israeli biochemist.
Biography
Hestrin was born in 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He emigrated with his parents to then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, in 1932 | Shlomo Hestrin |
675,509 | Arne Holmgren (21 December 1940 — 6 January 2020) was a Swedish biochemist known as a redox pioneer. He studied medicine at Uppsala University in 1962 and became a medical student. He received his Ph | Arne Holmgren |
675,510 | Karl Hult(born 1944) is a Swedish biochemist and researcher. He is a professor emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and has contributed to research within the fields of metabolism and biocatalysis.
Research
Hult's early research was in the field of fungal metabolism, and metabolic studies of Alternaria alternata lead to the discovery of the mannitol cycle | Karl Hult |
675,511 | Jessie Inchauspé (born 1992) is a French biochemist and author. She writes about the importance of balancing one's blood sugar for optimal health.
Biography
Inchauspé was born in 1992 | Jessie Inchauspé |
675,512 | Masayori Inouye is a distinguished professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. He, along with his team, discovered natural antisense RNA.
Inouye was also a key scientist involved in the discovery and characterization of retrons, which are retroviral-like elements found in various bacterial genomes | Masayori Inouye |
675,513 | Sanford Jackson was a Canadian biochemist. Jackson graduated from the University of Toronto in chemical engineering and pathological chemistry. He was research biochemist and biochemist-in-chief at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children 1937–1974 | Sanford Jackson |
675,514 | Jacobus Martinus Kaper (born 12 September 1931) is a biochemist and virologist who worked at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States. He has performed research on the cucumber mosaic virus | Jacobus Kaper |
675,515 | Gopinath Kartha (26 January 1927 – 18 June 1984) was a prominent crystallographer of Indian origin. In 1967, he determined the molecular structure of the enzyme ribonuclease. This was the first protein structure elucidated and published in the United States | Gopinath Kartha |
675,516 | Claude Klee (1931 – 4 April 2017) was a French biochemist.
Biography
Claude B. Klee attended the University of Marseille until she graduated with her medical degree in 1959 | Claude Klee |
675,517 | Silvana Konermann is a Swiss-American biochemist whose research involves CRISPR, Cas9, and their use in genome editing. She is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, as well as the Director and co-founder of the Arc Institute in Palo Alto. Konermann attended the prestigious Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen in Saxony, Germany, before matriculating in 2006 at ETH Zurich, where she completed her bachelor of science degree in neurobiology in three years | Silvana Konermann |
675,518 | Leszek Konieczny (Polish pronunciation: [ˈlɛ. ʂɛk kɔˈɲɛt͡ʂ. nɨ]; August 9, 1933- ) - Polish biochemist, professor (since 1995) at the Jagiellonian University Medical College | Leszek Konieczny |
675,519 | Asher Korner (7 February 1929 – 22 September 1971) was a British biochemist.
Education
Korner was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 1957.
Career and research
Korner became Director of Studies in Biochemistry at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was made a fellow in 1960 and served as a lecturer from 1960 to 1967 | Asher Korner |
675,520 | Leondios G. Kostrikis is a biochemist from Cyprus and a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Cyprus.
Education
Kostrikis received his scientific education in biochemistry from New York University | Leondios G. Kostrikis |
675,521 | Alexander Nikolayevich Lebedev (1869–1937) was a biochemist in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He is known for his early experiments on the biochemical basis of behavior. Lebedev apprenticed as a student with physiologist and psychologist Ivan Pavlov, becoming familiar with various techniques involved used in behavioral psychology | Aleksandr Lebedev (biochemist) |
675,522 | Marcelle Machluf (Hebrew: מרסל מחלוף) (Morocco, May 24, 1963) is an israeli biologist.
Biography
Machluf was born in Morocco and moved to Israel with her mother and grandmother when she was one year old. She grew up in Ashdod | Marcelle Machluf |
675,523 | Henry Ralph Mahler (1921–1983) was an Austrian-born American biochemist known for his research in the fields of both mitochondrial biogenesis and neurochemistry.
Biography
Mahler was born in 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, where he enrolled in Swarthmore College, from which he graduating in 1943 | Henry Mahler |
675,524 | Nilufar Mamadalieva is a biochemist from Uzbekistan.
Biography
Mamadalieva completed a Master's in science at Fergana State University and a PhD at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances in Tashkent. She is a scientific researcher at the institute | Nilufar Mamadalieva |
675,525 | Emanuel Margoliash (February 10, 1920 – April 10, 2008) was a biochemist who spent much of his career studying the protein cytochrome c. He is best known for his work on molecular evolution; with Walter Fitch, he devised the Fitch-Margoliash method for constructing evolutionary trees based on protein sequences. He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Emanuel Margoliash |
675,526 | Johannes Heinrich Matthaei (born 4 May 1929) is a German biochemist. He is best known for his unique contribution to solving the genetic code on 15 May 1961.
Career
Whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of Marshall Warren Nirenberg at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, he discovered that a synthetic RNA polynucleotide, composed of a repeating uridylic acid residue, coded for a polypeptide chain encoding just one kind of amino acid, phenylalanine | J. Heinrich Matthaei |
675,527 | Gerardus Johannes Mulder or Gerrit Jan Mulder (27 December 1802 – 18 April 1880) was a Dutch organic and analytical chemist.
Life
Mulder was born in Utrecht and earned a medical degree from Utrecht University. He became a reader of chemistry in Rotterdam and in 1840 he was appointed professor at Utrecht University | Gerardus Johannes Mulder |
675,528 | Guy Geoffrey Frederick Newton (1919 – 1969) was a British rower and biochemist. He was the co-discoverer of cephalosporin C.
Newton was born in St | Guy Newton |
675,529 | Maximilian Nierenstein (also known as Moses Max Nierenstein or Max Nierenstein; 1877–1946) was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Bristol.
He is known for the Nierenstein reaction, an organic reaction describing the conversion of an acid chloride into an haloketone with diazomethane.
In 1912, Polish biochemist Casimir Funk isolated a complex of micronutrients and proposed the complex be named "vitamine" (a portmanteau of "vital amine"), a name reportedly suggested by friend Max Nierenstein | Maximilian Nierenstein |
675,530 | Andrew Jonathan Nok, NNOM (11 February 1962 – 21 November 2017) was a Nigerian Professor of Biochemistry and the public affairs secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science. In 2010 he was a recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM), in the Science category and in 2013 he won the Alexander Humboldt Prize. He died on 21st November 2017 after a brief illness | Andrew Jonathan Nok |
675,531 | Anita Dolly Haubenstock Panek is a Brazilian biochemist. She emigrated from Poland to Brazil because of World War II. She received a B | Anita Dolly Panek |
675,532 | Gerald Penn is a clinical immunologist, and a pioneer in the field of clinical immunoelectrophoresis. He was a student of Henry Kunkel at Rockefeller University from 1968 to 1970, and holds both an M. D | Gerald Penn (immunologist) |
675,533 | Ole Holger Petersen (born 3 March 1943) is a research professor at Cardiff University where he studies physiology, especially calcium signalling and the pancreas. He was born in 1943 in Copenhagen, the first son of Joergen Petersen, an officer in the Danish navy, and Elisabeth née Klein, a pianist.
Prior to this he was Symers Professor of Physiology at the University of Dundee, and then George Holt Professor of Physiology at the University of Liverpool | Ole Holger Petersen |
675,534 | Colin Ratledge (born 9 October 1936) is a British biochemist who was Professor of Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Hull from 1983 to 2004. He was educated at Bury High School, and graduated from University of Manchester with a BSc in 1957 and a PhD in 1962. He joined the University of Hull as a lecturer in 1967 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry there from 1986 to 1988 | Colin Ratledge |
675,535 | Ivan Maurice Roitt (born 30 September 1927) is a British scientist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford University. He was Head of the Department of Immunology at University College London from 1967 to 1992, and is currently Honorary Director of the Centre for Investigative & Diagnostic Oncology at Middlesex University, London, and is related to multi-award winning radio producer Colin Roitt | Ivan Roitt |
675,536 | Irena Roterman-Konieczna (Polish pronunciation: [iˈrɛ. na rɔtɛrman kɔɲɛt͡ʂna]; born 13 March 1950) is a Polish biochemist and a professor at the Jagiellonian University Medical College.
Biography
Irena Roterman-Konieczna was born on 13 March 1950 in Kraków | Irena Roterman-Konieczna |
675,537 | Ernst Leopold Salkowski (October 11, 1844 – March 8, 1923) was a German biochemist who was a native of Königsberg.
He received his education at the University of Königsberg, later working in Berlin as an assistant in the chemical laboratory of Rudolf Virchow's institute of pathology (1872). In 1874 he became an associate professor of medicinal chemistry in Berlin, followed by an assignment as departmental head (1880) | Ernst Leopold Salkowski |
675,538 | Joannes Seyve (1900–1966) was a French biochemist who often used Seibel wine grape hybrids first produced in the 1860s. He created the Chambourcin grape, a French hybrid variety that is grown extensively in the Midwest and Northeast United States. His variety Joannes-Seyve 23 | Joannes Seyve |
675,539 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk (Russian: Александр Александрович Шмук) (9 November [O. S. 28 October] 1886 in Moscow – 22 January 1945, Moscow) was a Soviet biochemist and recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1942 | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shmuk |
675,540 | Alexander Sergeevich Spirin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Спирин) (4 September 1931 – 30 December 2020) was a Russian biochemist, Distinguished Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (since 1999), a Director of Institute of Protein Research Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino (Пущино-на-Оке), Moscow Region (Московская Область), Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences. His primary scientific interests in biochemistry included nucleic acids and protein biosynthesis.
Career
In 1957 together with Andrey Nikolayevich Belozersky (Андрей Николаевич Белозерский) he conducted comparative analysis of bacterial DNA and RNA, and predicted existence of messenger RNA | Alexander Spirin |
675,541 | Peter Hermann Stillmark (22 July 1860, Penza, Russian Empire – 23 June 1923, Pärnu, Estonia) was a Baltic-German microbiologist.
In 1888 at the University in Dorpat, now Tartu in Estonia under Professor Rudolf Kobert's supervision, Peter Hermann Stillmark (1860–1923) completed his doctoral thesis Über Ricin, ein giftiges Ferment aus den Samen von Ricinus comm. L | Peter Hermann Stillmark |
675,542 | David Landsborough Thomson F. R. S | David Landsborough Thomson |
675,543 | Manjeri Venkatachalam is a professor of biochemistry and pathologist at the Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He primarily studies renal pathology and stem cell therapy.
Education
Venkatachalam received his MBBS from Calcutta Medical College in 1962 | Manjeri Venkatachalam |
675,544 | Isabelle Vernos is an ICREA research professor at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. She received a PhD in biochemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid followed by postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University. Between 1992 and 2005 she developed her research career at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of Heidelberg in Germany | Isabelle Vernos |
675,545 | Edwin Clifford Webb (1921–2006) was a biochemist. He studied nerve gases at the University of Cambridge where he was a Beit Fellow and lecturer. He had earned his doctorate there, working in the laboratory of Malcolm Dixon and continued to collaborate with him in the study of enzymes | Edwin C. Webb |
675,546 | Charles Weissmann (born 14 October 1931) is a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and "mad cow disease".
Weissmann went to University of Zurich and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph | Charles Weissmann |
675,547 | Sabine Werner (born 5 September 1960) is a German biochemist and professor.
Biography
Sabine Werner was born on 5 September 1960 in Tübingen, Germany. She attended Universities of Tubingen and Munich where she studied Biochemistry | Sabine Werner |
675,548 | Hugh Robinson Whitehead (11 November 1899 – 13 March 1983) was a New Zealand biochemist, microbiologist and scientific administrator. He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in 1899. He was the director of the Dairy Research Institute in Palmerston North, which is now the Fonterra Research and Development Centre | Hugh Whitehead (scientist) |
675,549 | Shoshana Wodak is a computational biologist and an organizational leader in the field of protein-protein docking.
Wodak was one of the first people to dock proteins together using a computer program. Wodak obtained her PhD at Columbia University | Shoshana Wodak |
675,550 | Hsien Wu (simplified Chinese: 吴宪; traditional Chinese: 吳憲; pinyin: Wú Xiàn; 24 November 1893 – 8 August 1959) was a Chinese biochemist and geneticist. He was the first to propose that protein denaturation was a purely conformational change, i. e | Hsien Wu |
675,551 | Itai Yanai (born 6 February 1975) is an American-Israeli biomedical scientist and Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is also a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU.
Early life and education
Yanai was born in Haifa, Israel, and moved with his family to Boston in his early teens, when his father Moshe Yanai was appointed Chief Engineer at EMC | Itai Yanai |
675,552 | Zhang Mingjie (Chinese: 张明杰; born September 1966) is a Chinese structural biologist. He is Kerry Holdings Professor of Science and the Chair Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He was an overseas assessor of the Chinese Academy of Science | Zhang Mingjie |
675,553 | Julius Aamisepp (1 September 1883 Karilepa, Harju County – 19 January 1950 Jõgeva) was an Estonian horticulturalist, agricultural scientist, revolutionary, and soldier.
Biography
Aamisepp was born in 1883 in Harju County. Upon graduation from elementary school, Aamisepp's education became militarily focused, with Aamisepp being set on joining the Imperial Russian Army | Julius Aamisepp |
675,554 | Jumaat Haji Adam (born 1956) is a botanist and taxonomist specialising in the carnivorous pitcher plant genus Nepenthes.
Adam has described numerous Nepenthes taxa, mostly with C. C | Jumaat Haji Adam |
675,555 | Frederick M. Adamson (born 1816, died 1860, age 44) was an early settler in Victoria, Australia. He was the first settler to make botanical collections in the Melbourne area; between 1840 and 1856, he sent to the Kew herbarium a series of what William Hooker described as "extensive and excellent collections" | Frederick Adamson |
675,556 | John Robert Akeroyd (1952–) is a British botanist.
Life and work
Educated at St. Andrew's University, he proceeded to Cambridge University for his doctorate on the ecological genetics of weeds | John Akeroyd |
675,557 | Shinobu Akiyama (秋山 忍 born 1957) is a Japanese botanist who works at the Tsukuba Botanical Garden studying the taxonomy of spermatophytes, particularly in the Tibetan plateau and Himalayan mountains The standard author abbreviation S. Akiyama is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. As of March 2019, she is the author or one of the authors of 170 taxon names in the International Plant Names Index | Shinobu Akiyama |
675,558 | Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov (Russian: Николай Михайлович Альбов; 15 October 1866, in Pavlovo, Gorbatov region, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate, Imperial Russia – 6 December 1897, in La Plata, Argentina) was a Russian botanist and geographer. He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America. He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora | Nikolai Albov |
675,559 | Oscar Dana Allen (February 25, 1836 – February 19, 1913) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and a prolific researcher and collector of bryophytes. Oscar Dana Allen was born on February 25, 1836 in Hebron, Maine. He was graduated at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1861, and ten years later he received the degree of doctor of philosophy for original investigations, having in the meantime been an assistant professor there | Oscar Dana Allen |
675,560 | George William Francis Althofer (1903–1993) was an Australian botanist, nurseryman, author and poet, with a special interest in the mint-bush genus Prostanthera as well as other Australian native plants, who founded the Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum.
Life
Althofer was born at Dripstone in the Wellington local government area of Central West New South Wales. He attended school locally, in Dripstone, then Wellington and Mumbil | George Althofer |
675,561 | Amal Amin (born 1929) is an Egyptian botanist. She participated in naming the following plants:
Asteraceae Echinops taeckholmianus Amin
Asteraceae Launaea subgen. Microrrhynchus (Less | Amal Amin |
675,562 | 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 | David Ashton (botanist) |
675,563 | Manmohan Attavar ( 12 July 1932 - 12 December 2017) was an Indian horticulturist, plant breeder, writer and the founder of Indo American Hybrid Seeds (IAHS), an organization engaged in scientific plant breeding and horticulture. He founded the enterprise in 1965 and the organization, headquartered in Bengaluru, has grown to include 9 regional centres across India. He has served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Commerce and the Federation of International Seedsmen, Switzerland and has been a director of the National Horticultural Board | Manmohan Attavar |
675,564 | Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born October 5, 1928) is a Doctor of Biology and a noted Armenian botanist and mycologist. She has worked and explored extensively in her native Armenia under the auspices of the Institute of Botany of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. Her alma mater is Yerevan State University, the oldest and most prestigious of Yerevan's universities | Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan |
675,565 | Egil Morris Baardseth (born 2 May 1912 in Bærum, died on 29 January 1991 in Trondheim) was a Norwegian botanist and phycologist.
Biography
Baardseth was born in Bærum, just west of Oslo, to Carl Morris Baardseth (1880-1963), a marine insurance manager, and Solveig Tellefsen. His uncle was publisher Torger Baardseth | Egil Baardseth |
675,566 | Dr. Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková (17 January 1877, Prague - 29 September 1937, Čelákovice) was the first female Czech botanist and zoologist. Baborová was born in Prague in a school teacher's family and learned many languages at a young age | Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková |
675,567 | Herbert George Baker (February 23, 1920 – July 2, 2001) was a British-American botanist and evolutionary ecologist who was an authority on pollination biology and breeding systems of angiosperms. He described what became known as "Baker's rule," a theoretical proposal underpinning an empirical observation that the ability to self-fertilize improves colonization ability among plants by increasing the probability of successful establishment after long-distance dispersal. He collaborated with his wife, Irene Baker, studying the content and function of nectar, and undertaking research and publishing papers on its evolutionary and taxonomic significance | Herbert G. Baker |
675,568 | Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (30 January 1881, in Pasoeroean – 4 April 1945, in Tjimahi) was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of Henriëtte Maria Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt (1858–1929) and Charles René Bakhuizen van den Brink (1850–1923), and a grandson of the literary critic, historian and philosopher Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (1810–1865).
In 1917 he married Djahini from Tjimahi, whom he had met in 1910 | Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (born 1881) |
675,569 | Bryan Alwyn Barlow (born 1933) is an Australian botanist. He was a member of Committee of the "Flora of Australia" 1982–1984, and 1986–1988. He is a former director of the Australian National Herbarium (1981-1988) | Bryan Alwyn Barlow |
675,570 | Matthew David Barrett (born 1974) is a West Australian botanist. He has published some 70 botanical names. See also Taxa named by Matthew David Barrett | Matthew David Barrett |
675,571 | Lela Viola Barton (1901–1967) was an American botanist who specialized in seed germination and storage.
Early life
Lela Barton was born in Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas, on 14 November 1901, the third of five children born to Gaston Reuben and Mary Fannie (née Miller) Barton.
Career
Barton worked at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, in New York City, specializing in seeds | Lela Viola Barton |
675,572 | Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner (3 January 1816–14 October 1862) was a Baltic German botanist who lived and worked mainly in Imperial Russia.
Life and work
Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner was born in Tartu, present-day Estonia, and studied at Tartu University between 1836 and 1840. In 1843 he became a conservator at the Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg | Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner |
675,573 | Diane C. Bassham is a plant pathologist and professor at Iowa State University.
Bassham earned a bachelor's of science degree in biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, followed by a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Warwick | Diane Bassham |
675,574 | Robert J. "Rob" Bates (born 1946) is an Australian botanist, plant collector, and illustrator.
Biography
Bates grew up in Mylor, South Australia, and has been living in Fairview Park, Adelaide for more than 40 years | Robert John Bates |
675,575 | William Baeuerlen was a German botanical collector and explorer. He was born in Niedernhall as Leonhard Carl Wilhelm Bäuerlen. He became Ferdinand von Mueller's botanical collector in Australia from the 1880s, and later the collector for Joseph Maiden in Sydney | William Baeuerlen |
675,576 | Mary Beal (1878–1964) was a pioneering botanist who spent most of her life in Daggett, California, living at the ranch of local judge Dix Van Dyke. Though an amateur botanist, she was praised by Willis Linn Jepson for her excellent botanical specimens, and many of these were kept by the University and Jepson Herbaria to this day.
She wrote a regular botany column for the Desert Magazine from 1939 to 1953 | Mary Beal |
675,577 | Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
Career
From at least 1989, he was working at CSIRO, Division of Plant Industry, in Nambour, Queensland, and much of that work was on Eucalypts | Anthony Bean |
675,578 | Armenag Kevorg Bedevian, Effendi, from Armenian descent, author of Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names, in Latin, Arabic, Armenian, English, French, German, Italian and Turkish Languages, 1936 (with 1711 illustrations), was Director of Gizeh Research Farm, EgyptAccording to W. Lawrence Balls, M. A | Armenag K. Bedevian |
675,579 | David John Bedford (born 1952), is an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist who worked as a scientific executive officer and botanist at the National Herbarium of New South Wales.
He is notable for his revisions of the genus Xanthorrhoea as well as many new species such as Xanthorrhoea acanthostachya. The standard author abbreviation D | David John Bedford |
675,580 | Dominique C. Bergmann is a plant scientist with a specific focus on developmental biology and plant biology. Correspondingly, she is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and is in association with the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine | Dominique Bergmann |
675,581 | Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (3 May 1833 – 5 April 1873) was a Baltic German botanist who lived and worked mainly in Imperial Russia.
Life and work
Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert was born in Kandava, in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia), and studied in Jelgava to become an apothecary. In 1858 he moved to Tartu in present-day Estonia and worked there as an assistant to the head of the Botanical Garden there | Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert |
675,582 | Allan Adamson Black (1832 − 4 December 1865) was a botanist who served as the first curator at Kew. The plant genus Allanblackia was named after him posthumously by Professor Daniel Oliver. The species Austrosteenisia blackii is also named after him | Allan Black |
675,583 | Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE Royal Society of Biology FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, who was educated at St. George's School, Hong Kong and the University of Reading where he completed his PhD in 1976 on the "Palynology and Systematics of the Cichorieae". He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1976 | Stephen Blackmore |
675,584 | Ralph Anthony Blakelock (1915–1963) was a British botanist. He particularly focused on the research of spermatophites.
References
External links
Aluka | Ralph Anthony Blakelock |
675,585 | Teodor Bordeianu (February 16 1902 – March 19 1969) was a Romanian agronomist and pomologist who was a member of the Romanian Academy. He was born in the village of Marșenița, which is today in Ukraine, and died in Bucharest, Romania.
References
http://www | Teodor Bordeianu |
675,586 | Borhidi Attila (born 28 June 1932), is a Széchenyi Prize winning Hungarian botanist, ecologist, professor, politician and full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is most noted for his extensive work on plant taxonomy. 1989 to 1992, he was at the Janus Pannonius University Teacher Training Faculty, and from 1992 to 1994 the newly formed Faculty of Science | Attila Borhidi |
675,587 | Thomas Fulton Bourdillon (1 May 1849, Madras – 19 December 1930, Bexhill-on-Sea) was a British-Indian botanist, who worked as a Conservator of Forests in the princely state of Travancore. He came to Travancore (at present Southern Kerala) as a planter in 1871 and was appointed by the Travancore Durbar in 1886 as a special forest officer to explore the forests and to report on their resources. In 1891 he was appointed as Conservator of Forests, a position he retained till his retirement in June 1908 | T. F. Bourdillon |
675,588 | Elisabeth Boyko (24 September 1892 - 14 December 1985) was an Austrian-Israeli botanist noted for pioneering the use of salt water for irrigation of desert plants in Israel, alongside her husband Hugo Boyko. She received the William F. Petersen Award from the International Society of Biometeorology | Elisabeth Boyko |
675,589 | Guido Georg Wilhelm Brause (7 August 1847, in Kochanowitz – 17 December 1922) was a German botanist, specializing in ferns.
Brause studied at Koszęcin, in Poland. Along with his botanical career he continued throughout his life a military career, first in the artillery during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, then as an officer in Charlottenburg, with an expedition to Central Africa in 1907–1908 | Guido Georg Wilhelm Brause |
675,590 | Robert Brendel (c. 1821–1898) and his son Reinhold Brendel (c. 1861–1927) were botanical modelmakers in first Breslau then Grunewald Berlin | Robert Brendel |
675,591 | Jacob Breyne (14 January 1637 – 25 January 1697) was a Polish merchant, naturalist, and artist, born in Danzig (Gdańsk), Royal Prussia (a fief of the Crown of Poland). He was the father of Johann Philipp Breyne.
Biography
Breyne was interested in plants from a young age, and collected specimens from around Danzig | Jacob Breyne |
675,592 | Lillian Louisa Britten (1886-1952) was a South African botanist considered the leading expert of Eastern Cape flora in her time. Britten studied at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown as a student of Selmar Schonland, and after studying in the UK, returned in 1918 to Grahamstown to be a lecturer in botany at the Rhodes University College. The standard author abbreviation L | Lillian Louisa Britten |
675,593 | Andrew Phillip Brown (born 1951) is a conservation biologist and taxonomist at the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation. He is also curator of Orchidaceae and Myoporaceae at the Western Australian Herbarium and a foundation member of the Australian Orchid Foundation and the Western Australia Native Orchid Study and Conservation Group. He is the author of more than 100 journal articles and seven books on the flora of Western Australia, including a field guide to the eremophilas of that state | Andrew Phillip Brown |
675,594 | John Buchanan (13 October 1819 – 1898) was a New Zealand botanist and scientific artist. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society.
Biography
Buchanan was born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and in his early life apprenticed as a calico pattern designer | John Buchanan (botanist) |
675,595 | Bevan John Buirchell (born 1951) is an Australian botanist. He graduated from The University of Western Australia and obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1982. In 1988 he began working on lupins as an agricultural crop, first as a research officer and later as Senior Lupin Breeder in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture | Bevan Buirchell |
675,596 | Walter Carl Otto Busse (1868 – 1933) was a German botanist, whose primary scholarly focus was on German agriculture and the plants, fungi and lichen of Africa.
Life
Busse was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia on 7 December 1868. He received his Ph | Walter Carl Otto Busse |
675,597 | Juan Ismael Calzada is a Mexican botanist and collector. Dr Calzada is credited with the discovery of the elm Ulmus ismaelis, named in his honour.
Partial works
El estropajo | Juan Ismael Calzada |
675,598 | Karel Cejp (22 February 1900 – 22 September 1979) was a Czech botanist and mycologist. After finishing highschool (rokycanském gymnáziu), he worked with Bohuslav Horak, an expert in the flora of the Balkan Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Later, he studied at Charles University in Prague with Josef Velenovský | Karel Cejp |
675,599 | Siu Shih Chang (or Xui Shi Zhang, born 1918) is a Chinese botanist and plant collector. The elm species Ulmus changii was named for him after he discovered it in 1936.
Publications
Chang, S | Siu Shih Chang |
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