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6,800 | Vincenzo Petagna (Naples, 17 January 1734 – 6 October 1810) was an Italian biologist, physician and entomologist. He was appointed as director of the small botanical garden pertaining to the Monastery of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto (associated with the church now known as Sant'Anna dei Lombardi) in central Naples. He was also the teacher of Antonio Savaresi | Vincenzo Petagna |
6,801 | Thomas Petch (born Hornsea, Yorkshire, 11 March 1870; died King's Lynn, Norfolk, 24 December 1948) was a prolific English mycologist and plant pathologist best remembered for his work on the interaction between fungi and insects.
Biography
Petch was educated at the choir school of Holy Trinity at Hull, and taught at the King's Lynn Grammar School and Leyton Technical Institute while preparing for external degrees at the University of London. Petch had an early interest in natural history, but Charles Plowright, a doctor and mycologist in King's Lynn, encouraged him to study fungi | Tom Petch |
6,802 | Paul Alfred Pételot (1885–1965) was a French botanist and entomologist, whose primary scholarly focus was on medicinal plants in Southeast Asia. Some sources list his date of death as 1940, but several herbaria specimens are recorded as being collected by him up until 1944 including Carex kucyniakii (1944), Teijsmanniodendron peteloti (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1941), Amalocalyx microlobus (1942), Trichosanthes kerrii (1944) and Siraitia siamensis (1944). In addition, he continued to author publications through the 1950s, though it is possible these are posthumous | Paul Alfred Pételot |
6,803 | Gustav Albert Peter (21 August 1853, in Gumbinnen – 4 October 1937, in Göttingen) was a German botanist.
In 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Königsberg, and later on, worked as a curator at the botanical garden in Munich. From 1888 to 1923 he was a professor at the University of Göttingen, where he also served as director of the botanical garden | Gustav Albert Peter |
6,804 | Wilhelm Ludwig Petermann (3 November 1806 Leipzig – 27 January 1855 Hanover), was a German botanist and agrostologist, professor of philosophy and botany, and curator of the Herbarium at the University of Leipzig. The standard author abbreviation Peterm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name | Wilhelm Ludwig Petermann |
6,805 | Henning Eiler (Ejler) Petersen (22 August 1877 – 22 May 1946) was a Danish mycologist, botanist and marine biologist. He made a major contribution to unveiling the mysterious die-back of eel grass in Northern European waters in the early 20th century as a pathogen outbreak.
Petersen's main research was in what was then known as lower fungi – Chytridiomycota and Oomycetes, but he also studied the systematics of Red algae | Henning Eiler Petersen |
6,806 | Johannes Boye Petersen (29 September 1887 – 22 March 1961) was a Danish botanist and phycologist, mainly working on diatoms.
Selected scientific works
Studies on the Biology and Taxonomy of Soil Algae. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv vol | Johannes Boye Petersen |
6,807 | George Herbert Pethybridge (1 October 1871, Bodmin, Cornwall, UK – 23 May 1948, Bodmin) was a British mycologist and phytopathologist, who gained an international reputation for his research on diseases of the potato species Solanum tuberosum. He is noteworthy for his 1913 discovery of the water mold species Phytophthora erythroseptica.
Biography
After secondary education at Dunheved College in Launceston, Cornwall, he matriculated at the University of London, where he graduated with a B | George Herbert Pethybridge |
6,808 | James Petiver (c. 1665 – c. 2 April 1718) was a London apothecary, a fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his specimen collections in which he traded and study of botany and entomology | James Petiver |
6,809 | Franz Petrak (9 October 1886, Mährisch-Weißkirchen – 9 October 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian-Czech mycologist.
From 1906 to 1910, he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Richard Wettstein. In 1913 he obtained his doctorate of sciences, and until 1916, worked as a high school teacher in Vienna | Franz Petrak |
6,810 | Donald Petrie (7 September 1846 – 1 September 1925) was a Scottish botanist noted for his work in New Zealand.
Petrie was born in the parish of Edinkillie, Moray, on 7 September 1846 and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen.
He taught at the Glasgow Free Church Training College, the Glasgow Academy and Scotch College in Melbourne, Australia, before being appointed inspector of schools with the provincial government in Otago, New Zealand, in October 1873 | Donald Petrie (botanist) |
6,811 | Sava Petrović (1839–1889) was a botanist and Doctor of Medicine. He is considered to be one of the most important Serbian botanists of the 19th century. Petrović was active in phyto-pharmacology, botany and medicine simultaneously, writing and publishing numerous scientific works | Sava Petrović (botanist) |
6,812 | August Arthur Petry (1858, Tilleda - 1932 Nordhausen) was a German botanist and entomologist specialising in Microlepidoptera.
He was a teacher of philology at the Gymasium in Nordhausen. August Petry was a Member of the Stettin Entomological Society | August Arthur Petry |
6,813 | Johann Joseph Peyritsch (20 October 1835 – 14 March 1889) was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Völkermarkt.
In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1866 to 1871 was associated with Vienna General Hospital. He later served as custos at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, and in 1878, succeeded Anton Kerner von Marilaun as professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck, a position he maintained until his death in 1889 | Johann Joseph Peyritsch |
6,814 | Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer (9 March 1845 – 31 January 1920) was a German botanist and plant physiologist born in Grebenstein.
Academic career
He studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Göttingen, where his instructors included Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882), William Eduard Weber (1804-1891) and Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910). Afterwards, he furthered his education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin | Wilhelm Pfeffer |
6,815 | Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer, (born 1896) was a German botanist and physiologist, with a particular interest in spermatophytes. (Discussion on JSTOR gives 1896 as his birth year and 1970 as his death year, as does the Russian Wikipedia article. This conflicts with IPNI which gives his birth year as 1890 | Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer |
6,816 | Norma Etta Pfeiffer (1889–1989) was an American botanist who specialized in the study of lilies and Isoetes. She discovered and described the Chicago-endemic flowering plant species Thismia americana described in her doctoral thesis in 1913.
Education
She studied for her B | Norma Etta Pfeiffer |
6,817 | Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (26 March 1846 – 3 December 1906) was a German botanist who specialised in the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae (orchids).
Biography
Pfitzer was born in Königsberg. He studied chemistry and botany at Berlin and Königsberg, receiving his PhD in 1867 | Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer |
6,818 | Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (July 15, 1793 – July 15, 1884) was an American scientist, educator, author, and editor. Her botany writings influenced more early American women to be botanists, including Eunice Newton Foote and her daughter, Augusta Newton Foote Arnold. Though she primarily wrote regarding nature, she also was a writer of novels, essays, and memoir | Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps |
6,819 | Federico Philippi or Friedrich Heinrich Eunom Philippi (16 December 1838 – 16 January 1910) was a German zoologist and botanist active in Chile. He was the youngest son of the famed naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi and Caroline Krumwiede. He was born in Naples | Federico Philippi |
6,820 | Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology. His grandson, Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados (1905-1969), was also a zoologist and in order to avoid confusion in zoological nomenclature, the elder is referred to as "Philippi [Krumwiede]" to distinguish him from his grandson "Philippi [Bañados]" | Rodolfo Amando Philippi |
6,821 | Melva Noeline Philipson (née Crozier; 22 December 1925 – 29 April 2015) was a New Zealand botanist.
Biography
Philipson was born Melva Noeline Crozier in Palmerston North on 22 December 1925, the daughter of Gladys Crozier (née Eberhard) and Guy Neville Crozier. She was educated in Christchurch, at St Albans Primary School, Christchurch Girls' High School and Avonside Girls' High School | Melva Philipson |
6,822 | Datin Anthea Phillipps B. Sc. (born 3 June 1957) is a British botanist based in Sabah, Malaysia, specialising in pitcher plants and rhododendrons | Anthea Phillipps |
6,823 | Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 – 12 April 1967) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.
Phillips was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, and attended the South African College, which later became the University of Cape Town, where he graduated under Prof. Henry Harold Welch Pearson, obtaining a BA in 1903, an MA in 1908 and a DSc in 1915 for a treatise on the flora of the Leribe Plateau in Lesotho | Edwin Percy Phillips |
6,824 | William Phillips (4 May 1822 – 23 October 1905) was a Wales-born English mycologist, botanist, and antiquary.
Life
Born at Presteign in Radnorshire, on 4 May 1822, he was fourth son in a family of ten children of Thomas Phillips and Elizabeth, daughter of James Cross. After receiving some education at a school at Presteign, Phillips was apprenticed to his elder brother James, a tailor, in High Street, Shrewsbury, with whom and another brother, Edward, he went in due course into partnership | William Phillips (botanist) |
6,825 | Philipp Phoebus (23 May 1804, Märkisch-Friedland in West Prussia – 1 July 1880, Gießen) was a German physician and pharmacologist.
He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1827. Afterwards he continued his education in Würzburg with Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864) and Karl Friedrich Heusinger (1792-1883), in Paris under Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) and at Strasbourg, where he focused on anatomical studies | Philipp Phoebus |
6,826 | François Picard (1879, Dijon (Côte-d'Or) - 1939, Paris) was a French naturalist who specialised in botany and entomology. He wrote Faune de France Volume n° 20 (1879-1939) Coléoptères Cérambycidae 1929, 168 p. He was a Member of the Société Entomologique de France | François Picard (naturalist) |
6,827 | Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli (24 February 1912 – 22 April 2005) was an Italian botanist. He was born in Florence, son of Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli and Maria née Del Rosso. He graduated in natural history from the University of Florence in 1935 | Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli |
6,828 | Marcel Pichon (1921–1954) was a French botanist specialising in Apocynaceae.
Publications
1948. Classification des apocynacées | Marcel Pichon |
6,829 | Charles Pickering (November 10, 1805 – March 17, 1878) was an American race scientist and naturalist.
Biography
Born on Starucca Creek, Upper Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, the grandson of Colonel Timothy Pickering, after the death of his father he was raised in the house of his esteemed grandfather in Wenham, Massachusetts. Despite his part in the student rebellion of 1823, he received a medical degree from Harvard University in 1826 | Charles Pickering (naturalist) |
6,830 | Barbara Pickersgill (born 1940) is a British botanist with a special interest in the domestication of crops, the genetics, taxonomy, and evolutionary biology of cultivated plants, and the preservation of crop diversity. Her 1966 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University concerned the taxonomy of Capsicum chinense. Her doctoral advisor was Charles B | Barbara Pickersgill |
6,831 | Grace Evelyn Pickford (March 24, 1902, Bournemouth, England – January 20, 1986) was an American biologist and endocrinologist, known for "devising ingenious instruments and techniques" and her work on the hematology and endocrinology of fishes.
Life and career
Pickford was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1902. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she was a founding member of the Cambridge University Biological Tea Club | Grace E. Pickford |
6,832 | Henry Piddington (7 January 1797 – 7 April 1858) was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is particularly well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds around a calm centre recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name cyclone in 1848.
Scientific pursuits
Henry Piddington was the third of eight (excluding a ninth child who died at infancy) children born to an innkeeper at Lewes, James John Piddington (1757–1837) and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (1762–1835) | Henry Piddington |
6,833 | Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (23 October 1833 – 30 October 1905), also known as J. B. Louis Pierre, was a French botanist known for his Asian studies | Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre |
6,834 | Alessandro "Sandro" Pignatti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian botanist specialising in pteridophytes and spermatophytes. The Australian plant species Calectasia pignattiana was named after him.
On 31 May 1991 Pignatti received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden | Sandro Pignatti |
6,835 | Christopher Donald Pigott (7 April 1928 – 11 September 2022) was a British botanist who was the fourth Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden (1984–1995), succeeding Max Walters.
Life and career
Pigott was born on 7 April 1928. He was educated at Cambridge from 1946, where he was taught by two previous Directors, Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (1921–1950) and Max Walters (1973–1983) | Donald Pigott |
6,836 | Albert Pilát (November 2, 1903 – May 29, 1974) was a Czech botanist and mycologist. He studied at the Faculty of Science at Charles University, under the guidance of Professor Josef Velenovský. In 1930, he joined the National Museum, eventually becoming head of the Mycological Department, and in 1960 a corresponding member of the academy | Albert Pilát |
6,837 | Ignatz Anton Pilát (June 27, 1820 – September 17, 1870) was an Austrian-born gardener who migrated to the United States to work on the design and planting of New York City's Central Park.
Pilát was born on June 27, 1820, in St. Agatha, Upper Austria | Ignatz Anton Pilát |
6,838 | Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger (3 July 1876, in Helgoland – 1 September 1953, in Berlin) was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers.
He collected plants in the Mato Grosso of Brazil, and from 1945 to 1950 was director of the botanical garden at Berlin-Dahlem. The genera; Pilgerodendron Florin (Cupressaceae), Pilgerina Z | Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger |
6,839 | Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U. S | Gifford Pinchot |
6,840 | Dr Donald John Pinkava (1933–25 July 2017) was a botanist, specializing in cacti and succulents, and he is the discoverer of some of their varieties. He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University (ASU). He was married to Mary Klements Pinkava, and they have one daughter, Michelle Shaw, and two grandchildren | Donald John Pinkava |
6,841 | António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva (Porto, 13 March 1912 – Lisbon, 28 September 1992), often referred to as A. R. Pinto da Silva or P | António Rodrigo Pinto da Silva |
6,842 | Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 – 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, he spent his youth in Seattle, Washington Territory and graduated from the University of Washington Territory in 1885. He taught botany and zoology in 1892 at the Washington Agricultural College (now Washington State University) in Pullman | Charles Piper |
6,843 | John James Pipoly III (born September 5, 1955) is an American botanist and plant collector. He is a leading expert on the systematics and taxonomy of the genus Ardisia within the Myrsinoideae, as well as the family Clusiaceae.
Biology
Pipoly graduated in 1978 with a B | John J. Pipoly III |
6,844 | Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré (1827–1887) was a Belgian botanist. He held the position of Professor of Botany at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Works
Flore analytique du centre de la Belgique (with Félix Muller) (Victor Devaux et Cie, Bruxelles,1866)
Revue des mousses acrocarpes de la flore belge (C Annoot-Braeckman, Gand, 1869)
Opuscules de botanique | Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré |
6,845 | João Murça Pires (1917-1994) was a Brazilian botanist, who worked principally at the Instituto Agronômico do Norte.
Life
Pires was born in Bariri, Brazil on June 27, 1917. He received both his undergraduate (1942) and doctoral (1983) degrees from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo | João Murça Pires |
6,846 | Pascal "Pat" Pompey Pirone (October 7, 1907 Mount Vernon, New York – January 11, 2003, Lexington, Kentucky) was a botanist, plant pathologist, urban horticulturalist, science communicator, and author.
Biography
He grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. After graduating from A | Pascal Pompey Pirone |
6,847 | Pietro Romualdo Pirotta (7 February 1853 – 3 August 1936) was an Italian professor of botany. He was made Knight of the Crown of Italy.
Biography
He enrolled in the faculty of medicine of the University of Pavia and then changed to the University's faculty of sciences, where he graduated in July 1875 | Pietro Romualdo Pirotta |
6,848 | Edmundo Pisano Valdés (19 May 1919 – 29 March 1997) was a Chilean plant ecologist, botanist and agronomist. Born in Punta Arenas in Chile's far south Pisano studied agronomy at the University of Chile. In the late 1960s he returned to Punta Arenas | Edmundo Pisano |
6,849 | Willem Piso (in Dutch Willem Pies, in Latin Gulielmus Piso, also called Guilherme Piso in Portuguese) (1611 in Leiden – 28 November 1678 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644, sponsored by count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company. Piso became one of the founders of tropical medicine.
Life and career
Piso was born in Leiden to church organist Hermann Pies and Cornelia van Liesvelt | Willem Piso |
6,850 | Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard, name sometimes given as Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard-Briau (30 October 1873 – 29 December 1927) was a French pharmacist and botanist. In 1899 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences at the University of Bordeaux, later serving as a professor at the school of medicine in Tours. He conducted botanical and exploratory investigations in the Canary Islands (1904–06), Tunisia (1907–10 & 1913) and Morocco (1911–13) | Charles-Joseph Marie Pitard |
6,851 | Zina Pitcher (April 12, 1797, in Sandy Hill, New York – April 5, 1872, in Detroit) was an American physician, politician, educator, and academic administrator. He was a president of the American Medical Association, a two-time mayor of Detroit and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.
Biography
Early life
Pitcher was born in Sandy Hill, New York, on April 12, 1797 | Zina Pitcher |
6,852 | John Ingram Pitt (13 March 1937 – 23 March 2022) was an Australian mycologist, known as a leading expert on the role of fungi in food spoilage. He gained an international reputation as a pioneering researcher on the ecology of spoilage moulds in extreme environments and of dried fruits and other dried foodstuffs.
Education and career
John I | John I. Pitt |
6,853 | Henri François Pittier de Fabrega (August 13, 1857 in Bex, Switzerland – January 27, 1950 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist who started Venezuelan National Park history.
Biography
He graduated as an engineer from the University of Jena and moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he founded the Physical Geographic Institute and an herbarium. Pittier collected fungi in Costa Rica which was published as a paper in 1896 by Marietta Hanson Rousseau and Elisa Caroline Bommer, and collected spiders that were detailed or described by A | Henri François Pittier |
6,854 | Jules Émile Planchon (21 March 1823 – 1 April 1888) was a French botanist born in Ganges, Hérault.
Biography
After receiving his Doctorate of Science at the University of Montpellier in 1844, he worked for a while at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, and for a few years was a teacher in Nancy and Ghent. In 1853 he became head of the department of botanical sciences at the University of Montpellier, where he remained for the remainder of his career | Jules Émile Planchon |
6,855 | Anton Wilhelm Plaz (1 January 1708, Leipzig – 26 February 1784, Leipzig) was a German physician and botanist.
From 1723 he studied medicine at the universities of Leipzig and Halle, receiving his doctorate at the latter institution in 1728. In 1733 he became an associate professor of botany at Leipzig, where afterwards, he successively served as a full professor of botany (1749–54), physiology (1754–58), anatomy and surgery (1758), pathology (1758–73) and therapy (1773–84) | Anton Wilhelm Plaz |
6,856 | Auguste Plée, born 1787 in Paris and died 17 August 1825 in Fort Royal, Martinique, was a French naturalist.
Biography
Between 1821 and 1823 he was sketching military installations, ports and towns in Puerto Rico. After travelling extensively, and forming numerous collections of plants, he fell sick and died in Martinique | Auguste Plée |
6,857 | Timothy Charles Plowman (November 17, 1944 – January 7, 1989) was an ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus Erythroxylum in general, and the cultivated coca species in particular. He collected more than 700 specimens from South America, housed in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History. The standard author abbreviation Plowman is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name | Timothy Plowman |
6,858 | Charles Bagge Plowright (3 April 1849 – 24 April 1910) was a British doctor and mycologist.
Plowright trained as a doctor at the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital, eventually becoming a surgeon there. He was also a Medical Officer for Health for many years in Freebridge Lynn, and was the Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1890 to 1894 | Charles Bagge Plowright |
6,859 | Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) was an English botanist, Royal Professor of Botany and gardener to Queen Mary.
Biography
Plukenet published Phytographia (London, 1691–1696) in four parts in which he described and illustrated rare exotic plants. It is a copiously illustrated work of more than 2 700 figures and is frequently cited in books and papers from the 17th century to the present | Leonard Plukenet |
6,860 | Charles Plumier (French: [ʃaʁl ply. mje]; 20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time | Charles Plumier |
6,861 | Edna Pauline Plumstead (née Janisch) (15 September 1903 Cape Town – 23 September 1989 Johannesburg) was a South African palaeobotanist, of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she graduated in 1924. Edna lived in Cape Town the first seven years of her life and that is where she would explore and find wild flowers in the Cape Peninsula. Plumstead would later on connect the wild flowers to the same one in places like Australia and South America when she would later on defend the continental drift | Edna P. Plumstead |
6,862 | Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova (1898-1973) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant collector noted for describing over 270 species in Russia, Ukraine and North Asia.
Career
She received a Ph. D | Yevgenia Pobedimova |
6,863 | Mary Agard Pocock (31 December 1886 – 10 July 1977) was a South African phycologist.
Biography
Born in Rondebosch in 1886 to William Pocock and Elizabeth Dacomb, Mary Pocock attended Bedford High School and Cheltenham Ladies' College. Pocock then attended the University of London where she studied botany, receiving her degree in 1908 | Mary Pocock |
6,864 | Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (16 July 1798 – 4 September 1868) was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer.
Biography
Poeppig was born in Plauen, Saxony. He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a medical degree | Eduard Friedrich Poeppig |
6,865 | Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I (May 20, 1840–December 16, 1893) was a German born American botanist. Poggenburg was born in Holtum, today part of Wegberg in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was married with Mary Catherine Franckhauser (ca | Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I |
6,866 | Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (23 February 1782, Česká Kamenice (German: Böhmisch Kamnitz) – 22 May 1834, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, mineralogist, and physician.
Biography
Johann Emanuel Pohl grew up in Politz an der Elbe (Boletice nad Labem−(in Czech) of northwestern Bohemia, in the present day Děčín District of the northern Czech Republic.
He studied in Prague, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1808 | Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl |
6,867 | Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (12 September 1746, Leipzig – 25 October 1800, Dresden) was a German physician and botanist. He was the son of physician Johann Christoph Pohl (1706–1780).
From 1763 to 1769, he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, receiving his doctorate in 1772 | Johann Ehrenfried Pohl |
6,868 | Dr. Richard W. Pohl (May 21, 1916 - September 3, 1993) was an American botanist and Professor of Botany at Iowa State University who was an expert in grasses, especially western hemisphere tropical woody bamboos | Richard Walter Pohl |
6,869 | Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle (Russian: Рихард Рихардович Поле, Richard Richardovytch Pohle; 5 August 1869–4 August 1926) was a Baltic German botanist.
Life and work
Born in Riga, he studied in Germany and earned his doctorate degree from Dresden University of Technology. 1905-1916 he worked at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden | Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle |
6,870 | Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin – 7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, botanist, and explorer.
From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne | Jean Louis Marie Poiret |
6,871 | Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (23 March 1766 Âmbleny – 27 February 1854) was a French botanist, gardener and botanical artist.
Biography
He was born in Ambleny, France. After having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian market gardeners, he was appointed by André Thouin (1746–1824) garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris | Pierre Antoine Poiteau |
6,872 | Pierre Poivre (23 August 1719 – 6 January 1786) was an 18th-century horticulturist and botanist. He was born in Lyon, France.
He was a missionary to East Asia, intendant of French colonial islands in the Indian Ocean, and wearer of the cordon of St | Pierre Poivre |
6,873 | James "Jim" Joseph Pojar (born January 12, 1948, in Ramsey, Minnesota) Is an American-Canadian field botanist, forester, and ecologist. In 2015 the Canadian Botanical Association awarded him the George Lawson Medal for lifetime achievement.
Biography
After graduating with a master's degree in botany from the University of Minnesota, Pojar studied from 1970 to 1974 at the University of British Columbia | Jim Pojar |
6,874 | Antonina Ivanovna Pojarkova (1897–1980) was a Russian expert on the flora of the Caucasus, with a particular interest in ferns and seed plants. Pojarkova authored 230 land plant species names, the eighth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist.
Work
Pojarkova was a principal editor with B | Antonina Pojarkova |
6,875 | Kadri Põldmaa (born 28 April 1970 in Tartu) is an Estonian mycologist. Põldmaa is the daughter of mycologist Peeter Põldmaa (1929–1990). She graduated from Tartu Secondary School No | Kadri Põldmaa |
6,876 | Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG (3 September 1879 – 16 October 1968) was a Welsh-born South African botanist. Sometimes his first name is spelled Iltyd.
Biography
Pole-Evans was born in Llanmaes in the Vale of Glamorgan, the son of an Anglican clergyman, Daniel Evans and Caroline Jane Pole | Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans |
6,877 | Johan Adam Pollich or Johann (1 January 1741, Kaiserslautern – 24 February 1780) was a German doctor, botanist and entomologist.
He studied medicine in Strasbourg, and following graduation he practiced medicine for a short period of time. From 1764 onward he devoted his energies to natural sciences | Johan Adam Pollich |
6,878 | Nicolas Auguste Pomel (20 September 1821 – 2 August 1898) was a French geologist, paleontologist and botanist. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. He was Senator of Algeria for Oran from 1876 to 1882 | Auguste Pomel |
6,879 | René Pomerleau, OC (27 April 1904 in Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec – 11 October 1993 in Quebec City) was a mycologist and plant pathologist whose specialty was fungi and lichens. He received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Laval University before an MS at the McGill University and later study at the Sorbonne. In 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University | René Pomerleau |
6,880 | Patricio Ponce de León (August 26, 1915 – February 26, 2010) was a Cuban mycologist. He was a professor at Belen School in Havana and at the University of Havana, and later a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote a monograph on the worldwide species of the family Geastraceae, the earthstar fungi | Patricio Ponce de León |
6,881 | Giulio Pontedera (7 May 1688 – 3 September 1757) was an Italian botanist of Tuscan origin. He was professor of botany at Padua, and director of the botanical garden there. Although he rejected Carl Linnaeus' system, Linnaeus was a correspondent of Pontedera's, and named the genus Pontederia after him | Giulio Pontedera |
6,882 | Alick Lindsay Poole (4 March 1908 – 2 January 2008) was a New Zealand botanist and forester.
Academic career
Poole started at the New Zealand State Forest Service 1926, then to Auckland University College on a scholarship. After various jobs during the Great Depression, he joined the Botany Division of the DSIR in 1937 | Lindsay Poole |
6,883 | Clara Maria Leigh or Clara Maria Pope (c. 1767 – 24 December 1838) was a British painter and botanical artist.
Life
Born in London, Leigh was christened in 1767 at St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe | Clara Pope |
6,884 | Dorothy Popenoe (19 June 1899 – 30 December 1932; born Dorothy Kate Hughes) was an English archaeologist, botanist, and scientific illustrator.
Popenoe attended the Welsh Girls' School in Ashford until the beginning of World War I when she joined the Women's Land Army. In 1918, she began work at Kew Garden in London, England as an assistant to Dr | Dorothy Popenoe |
6,885 | Frederick Wilson Popenoe (March 9, 1892 – June 20, 1975) was an American Department of Agriculture employee and plant explorer. From 1916 to 1924, Popenoe explored Latin America to look for new strains of avocados. He reported his adventures to the National Geographic Society | Wilson Popenoe |
6,886 | George Basil Popov (1922, in Iran – 22 December 1998, in London), was a Russian-British entomologist born in Iran, his father having been employed there by the Imperial Bank of Persia. Popov became an authority on the Desert locust.
George Popov was appointed to the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit by Boris Uvarov in 1943 | George Basil Popov |
6,887 | Mikhail Grigorevich Popov (Russian: Михаил Григорьевич Попов) (5(17) April, 1893 – 18 December, 1955) was a Soviet botanist. He is known for developing a theory on the role of hybridization in plant evolution, and studying the flora of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The standard author abbreviation Popov is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name | Mikhail Grigorevich Popov |
6,888 | Dugald Louis Poppelwell (2 July 1863 – 23 September 1939) was a New Zealand lawyer, local politician and conservationist. He was born in Tokomairiro (now Milton), Otago, New Zealand in 1863.
Early life
Poppelwell was the tenth of twelve children of his parents, William Poppelwell, a Scottish mariner turned farmer, and his wife, Catherine Robertson McLachlan | Dugald Poppelwell |
6,889 | Florian Porcius (August 28 [O. S. August 16] 1816–May 30 [O | Florian Porcius |
6,890 | Alf Erling Porsild (1901–1977) was a Danish-Canadian botanist.
Biography
He was born in Copenhagen as a son of the botanist M. P | Erling Porsild |
6,891 | Morten Pedersen Porsild (1 September 1872, Glibstrup near Store Andst – 30 April 1956, Copenhagen) was a Danish botanist who lived and worked most of his adult life in Greenland. He participated in expeditions to Greenland in 1898 and 1902, together with the physiologist August Krogh. In 1906, he founded the Arctic Station in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland, since 1956 part of the University of Copenhagen | Morten Pedersen Porsild |
6,892 | Thomas Conrad Porter (1822–1901) was an American botanist and theologian known as an expert on the flora of Pennsylvania.
Biography
Porter was born in Alexandria, Pennsylvania on January 22, 1822. He attended Harrisburg Academy before enrolling in Lafayette College at the age of 14 | Thomas Conrad Porter |
6,893 | Heinrich Poselger (25 December 1818 – 4 October 1883) was a German botanist who specialized in studies of succulent plants.
From 1849 to 1851 he collected plants, especially cacti, along the U. S | Heinrich Poselger |
6,894 | George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist.
Biography
George Edward Post was born in New York City on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post. He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, which became the American University of Beirut (AUB) | George Edward Post |
6,895 | Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post (16 June 1884 – 11 January 1951) was a Swedish naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. He was a professor at Stockholm University 1929–1950 | Lennart von Post |
6,896 | Alexander Filippovich Postels (Russian: Александр Филиппович Постельс; 24 August 1801 Dorpat – 28 June 1871 Vyborg), was a Baltic German of Russian citizenship naturalist, mineralogist and artist.
Postels studied at St. Petersburg Imperial University and in 1826 lectured there on inorganic chemistry | Alexander Postels |
6,897 | Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin) (Russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia, and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants | Grigory Potanin |
6,898 | Henry Potonié (16 November 1857 – 28 November 1913) was a German botanist and paleobotanist, known for his studies of coal formation.
Potonié was born in Berlin. He studied botany at the University of Berlin, and from 1880 served as a research assistant in the botanical garden at Berlin | Henry Potonié |
6,899 | Michael Cressé Potter (7 September 1858, Corley, Warwickshire – 9 March 1948, New Milton, Hampshire) was an English botanist, mycologist, phytopathologist, herbarium curator, and canon in the Church of England. He was the president of the British Mycological Society in 1909.
Biography
He was christened on 7 November 1858 in Bulkington, Warwickshire | Michael Cressé Potter |
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