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1883 - 1980 
Hannah Aase Hannah Aase was an American cytologist/cytotaxonomist and was the first Emeritus Professor at the State College of Washington. |
1906 - 1992 
Lucy B. Abbe Lucy B. Abbe was an American botanist who earned A.B. and M.Sc. degrees from Cornell University. |
1919 - 2010 
Isabella Abbott Isabella Aiona Abbott was an internationally renowned phycologist and the world's leading expert on Pacific seaweeds. |
1915 - 1985 
Maxine Abbott Maxine L. Abbott was an American paleobotanist associated with Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas. She worked on Paleozoic ferns and lycopsids. |
1914 - 2004 
Hilda Aboy Hilda Elena Aboy was an American botanist who studied under Arthur J. Eames at Cornell University. |
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1926 - 2007 
Jacqueline Adams Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams was a New Zealand botanist and botanical illustrator recognized for her numerous contributions to publications on native plants of New Zealand. |
1903 - 1989 
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Myrtle T. Adams Myrtle T. Adams was known as a plant collector and spouse of Joseph William Adams. |
1838 - 1914
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Mary Albertson Mary A. Albertson was an American botanist and astronomer, and curator of the Maria Mitchell Memorial and Observatory, Nantucket, Massachusetts. |
1867 - 1950 
Annie Alexander Annie Montague Alexander was an American (born in the Kingdom of Hawaii) paleontologist and philanthropist whose patronage led to the establishment of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. |
1904 - 1975 
Caroline Allen Caroline Allen was an American plant taxonomist and botanical illustrator, and an expert on the angiosperm family Lauraceae. |
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Mabel Allen Mabel Allen was an American collector of New York State plants, and herbarium assistant at Cornell university. |
1906 - 2006 
Ethel K. Allen Ethel K. Allen was an American plant physiologist and bacteriologist who worked on symbiosis and nitrogen fixation |
1913 - 1984 
Ruth Allen Ruth Allen was an amateur American mycologist, nature photographer and conservationist in the area of New Jersey and Philadelphia, USA |
1878 - 1969 
Blanche Ames Blanche Ames was an American botanical illustrator, who provided illustrations for the Orchidaceae studies of Oakes Ames. She was also an activist and inventor. |
1897 - 1984 
Edavaleth Ammal E. K. Janaki Ammal was was a pioneer of plant cytology and cytogenetics and was known as "the botanist who sweetened India" for her work on sugarcane breeding. |
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1881 - 1966
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Emma N. Andersen Emma N. Anderson was an American bryologist and faculty member at University of Nebraska College of Agriculture. |
1908 - 1996
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Carolle Anderson Carolle Elizabeth Anderson was an American educator and community leader with a Ph.D. from Cornell University. |
1885 - 1984 
Flora Anderson-Haas Flora Anderson-Haas was an American botanist, plant anatomist, and educator on the faculty of Wellesley College, Indiana University, Arkansas State Teachers College, and Union University. |
1879 - 1960 
Agnes Arber Agnes Arber was a celebrated plant anatomist and paleobotanist who also had a strong interest in the study of herbals. |
1914 - 2007 
Eily Archibald Eily Archibald was a South African botanist who named several plant species of the veld grassland, and was the author and illustrator of The Eastern Cape Veld Flowers, a valuable resource for that flora. |
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1865 - 1961
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Eleonora Armitage Eleonora Armitage was a British bryologist and also had interests in the genus Iris and collected widely in Europe and the Caribbean region |
1867 - 1944 
Margaret Armstrong Margaret Armstrong was a prominent American designer and illustrator who worked in the botanical field, and published field guides to plants of the American west. |
1858 - 1933
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Isabel Arnold Isabel Arnold was an American educator whose plant collections were made mostly in the Upper Chemung Valley, Steuben County, New York. |
1921 - 1989
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Earlene Atchison Earlene Atchison was an American cytotaxonomist who worked mostly with Fabaceae (bean family) and tropical trees. |
1799 - 1871 
Anna Atkins Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer who in 1843 self-published the first book to contain photographic images, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. |
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1812 - 1878 
Elizabeth Atwater Elizabeth Atwater was a self-taught plant collector who corresponded with leading botanists of her time. Many of her specimens, donated to the Chicago Academy of Science, were lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. |
1832 - 1919 
Rebecca Austin Rebecca Merritt Smith Austin was an American pioneer in carnivorous plant studies despite having no formal botanical education. |
- 1990
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Charlotte Avers Charlotte Avers was a plant anatomist in the mid 20th Century who was an expert on root development |
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Freda M. Bachmann Freda M. Bachman was a mycologist from the early 20th Century, but we know little else about her Freda M. Bachman was a mycologist in the early 20th Century. We currently know little else about her |
1857 - 1937
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Alice Bacon Alice E. Bacon was an American plant collector centered in Vermont, about whom little is known. |
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1889 - 1983 
Ethel Bailey Ethel Zoe Bailey, daughter of L.H. Bailey, was the first curator at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, from 1935 until her retirement in 1957. |
1908 - 2003
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Virginia Bailey Virginia Bailey was an American plant taxonomist who worked on the genus Ptelea (Rutaceae). |
1875 - 1946 
Viola Baird Viola Brainerd Baird was the daughter of Middlebury college president and North American violet expert Ezra Brainerd who documented some of her father's work for the botanical community. |
1876 - 1941 
Mary E. Francis Baker Mary Francis Baker was an American amateur botanist who, despite not having formal training in botany, led a successful professional life with a main focus on wild flowers. |
1924 - 2015 
Margaret Balbach Margaret Balbach was an American paleobotanist who studied paleozoic lycophytes early in her career, then shifted her focus to horticulture, founding a horticulture-agribusiness program at the University of Illinois where she taught for twenty years. |
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1784 - 1866
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Hannah M. Webster Baldwin Hannah Baldwin was an 18th Century American botanist and was the spouse of botanist William Baldwin |
1887 - 1950
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Helen Bancroft Helen Holme Bancroft, also known as Nellie Bancroft, was a British paleobotanist who worked at Newnham College (University of Cambridge), and Oxford University. |
1847 - 1918 
Caroline Barbey-Boissier Caroline Barbey-Boissier was a Swiss plant collector and assistant to her spouse, botanist William Barbey, but was also involved in social causes such as l'Union internationale des Amies de la jeune fille (AJF), an aid society for young women to keep them from falling into prostitution. |
1740 - 1807 
Jeanne Baret Jeanne Baret, a French botanist, is recognized as the first woman to circumnavigate the globe while co-collecting with Philibert Commerson on the Bougainville expedition of 1766. |
1907 - 1994 
Winsome Barker Winsome Fanny "Buddy" Barker was a South African botanist known for her extensive curation and research of petaloid monocotyledons and spermatophytes at the Bolus and Compton Herbaria in Kirstenbosch. |
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1884 - 1977 
Kate Barratt Kate Barratt was a research assistant and lecturer in botany at Imperial College London before she became Principal at Swanley Horticultural College, her alma mater. |
1879 - 1972 
Mary Barrett Mary Franklin Barrett was an American high school teacher, and an instructor in Botany at Wellesley College who attended summer school at Cornell University in 1902. She had an interest in mycology and in the genus Ficus, and lived an exceptionally long life in Montclair, N.J. |
1912 - 1985 
Elizabeth Bartholomew Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew was an American botanist with expertise on the flora of West Virginia, who served on the faculty of West Virginia University. |
1901 - 1967
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Lela Barton Lela Viola Barton was an American plant physiologist who studied the physiology of seeds, germination, dormancy and storage. |
1701 - 1780 
Madeleine Basseporte Madeleine Francoise Basseporte was a French botanical painter best known for serving as the Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet under Louis XV. She was the first woman to be appointed to the position. |
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1863 - 1928
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Anna Bateson Anna Bateson was a British botanist who worked closely Francis Darwin, and was the sister of botanist William Bateson |
1905 - 1990 
Marion Beadle Marion Hill Beadle was an American botanist who was a graduate student in botany at Cornell University, and the first spouse of the pioneering geneticist, George Beadle. |
1878 - 1964 
Mary A. Beal Mary A. Beal was an American amateur botanist and plant collector known for her pioneering botanical work in the Mojave Desert in California. |
1912 - 2003 
Katherine I. Beamish Katherine Beamish was a Canadian botanist and educator who took a leave of absence from schoolteaching to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. She then went to college, ultimately earning a Ph.D in genetics and botany, and embarked on a long career as a professor at the University of British Columbia. |
1843 - 1929 
Florence Beckwith Florence Beckwith was an American botanist and conservationist, and charter member of the Botany Section of the Rochester Academy of Science. |
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1892 - 1974 
Alma Beers Alma Beers was the first woman botanist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. |
1944 - 2001 
Joy Belsky Joy Belsky was an American plant ecologist and conservationist, who fought to keep grazing cattle off public lands. |
1879 - 1961 
Margaret Benham Margaret Benham was an American amateur botanist and resident of McGraw, New York, who collected plants in and around Tompkins County in 1898, today in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH) at Cornell University. |
1848 - 1911 
Adelaide Bennett Adelaide George Bennett was an American teacher, poet, and botanist with a strong interest in Native American lore. |
1859 - 1936 
Margaret Benson Margaret Benson was an English paleobotanist who collected material in Australia, Java and India, and was a pioneer in the examination of fossils using microscopy. |
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1846 - 1924
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Fanny Bergen Fanny Dickerson Bergen was an American ethnobotanist and folklorist, with a special interest in horticultural superstitions. She was the spouse of botanist Joseph Young Bergen. |
1899 - 1984
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A. Dorothy Bergner A. Dorothy Bergner was an active American plant cytogeneticist in the first half of the 20th Century |
1872 - 1947 
Emily Berridge Emily Berridge researched fossil plants and the Amentiferae with paleobotanist Margaret Benson at the University of London before shifting her focus to the study of pathenogenic bacteria during World War I. |
1831 - 1932 
Caroline Bingham Caroline Bingham was one of the first American women to publish scientific papers in botany. |
- 2015 
Helena Birecka Helena Birecka was a Russian-American plant physiologist who was the first female full professor on the teaching faculty at Union College |
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1892 - 1968 
Kathleen Blackburn Kathleen Blackburn was a British botanist, expert palynologist, cytologist and paleoecologist. She is noted for determining that plants have sex chromosomes. |
1922 - 2009 
Jean Bobear Jean Barry Bobear was an American botanist and educator who is credited (in her Ph.D. thesis) with the introduction of the use of statistics in botany at Trinity College, Ireland, and at Cambridge University, England. |
1911 - 1995 
Edith Bolan Edith M. Bolan was a Maine botanist and, most notably, author of The Ferns of Maine (1948). |
1877 - 1970 
Louisa Bolus Louisa Bolus was a South African taxonomist and curator of the Bolus Herbarium. She authored 1,494 land plant species, more than any other female scientist. |
1898 - 1952
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Miriam Bomhard Miriam Bomhard was an American plant taxonomist. She was he first woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, with a thesis on illustrations and diagnostic keys of seeds. She also worked on the palm genus Sabal and collected extensively. |
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1908 - 2005 
Mary Bowerman Mary Leolin Bowerman was a Canadian-American botanist and conservationist best known for her preservation efforts at Mt. Diablo, California. |
1872 - 1944
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Margaret Boynton Margaret Fursman Boynton was an American botanist and entomologist, and a Cornell alumna. |
1890 - 1973 
Nina Bracelin Nina Floy "Bracie" Bracelin was an American botanist and botanical illustrator, and associate of Ynes Mexia and Alice Eastwood in California. |
1886 - 1973 
Hazel Branch Hazel E. Branch was an American entomologist, educator, and medical research scientist who became president of the Kansas Academy of Sciences. |
1844 - 1920 
Mary Brandegee Katharine Brandegee was an American botanist, collector, and physician who became Herbarium Curator at the California Academy of Sciences. |
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1889 - 1971 
Emma Braun Lucy Braun, an American botanist, is considered to have been one of most important plant ecologists of the 20th century and was an expert on the physiography of the deciduous forests of the eastern U.S. |
1901 - 2001 
Helia Bravo Helia Bravo Hollis was a Mexican botanist renowned for her work on the taxonomy of cacti |
1883 - 1953 
Winifred Brenchley Winifred Brenchley was a horticulturalist and weed scientist and the first woman on the staff of the Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpendon, England, where she developed techniques to conduct pioneering research in the nutrition of agricultural plants. |
1916 - 1990 
Adelaide Briggs Adelaide Elizabeth Briggs ("Miss Briggs") was an American herbarium curator and artist who served as Assistant Curator at the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), Cornell University, from 1947-1980. |
1888 - 1950 
Blanche Bristol Blanche Muriel Bristol was an English phycologist, famous as the inspiration for Fisher's exact test based on her preference for the order of pouring tea and milk into a cup. |
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1858 - 1934 
Elizabeth Britton Elizabeth G. Britton was an American bryologist known for being one of the founding leaders of The New York Botanical Garden. |
1908 - 2001 
Babette Brown Babette I. Brown Coleman was an American botanist and plant collector on the faculty of University of Rochester, New York. She specialized in bryology and lichenology nad contributed significantly to the Cornell University herbaria while under the tutelage of Walter C. Muenscher. |
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Isabel M. P. Browne Isabel Browne was a British plant anatomist and plaeobotanist who worked extensively on the cones and reproductive structures of extant and extinct Equisetales/Calamites |
1912 - 2007 
Katherine M. Buell Katherine Buell held B.S. and M.S. degrees in Zoology and earned a Ph.D. on Botany in 1936, before taking a position at Doane College in Nebraska, where she remained until her retirement 43 years later, becoming the longest serving faculty member there. |
1912 - 1977 
Nancy Burbidge Nancy Burbridge was an Australian plant systematist and herbarium curator with expertise in phytogeography who served as director of the Flora of Australia series from 1973-1977. |
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1872 - 1952 
Gertrude Burlingham Gertrude Simmons Burlingham was an American mycologist who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in a joint program with the New York Botanical Garden. She specialized in the genera Russula and Lactarius. |
1799 - 1872 
Priscilla Bury Priscilla Susan Bury was an English self taught botanical artist whose lauded folio, A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, was engraved by Robert Havell, who also created the plates for Audubon's Birds of America. |
1851 - 1933 
Eloise Butler Eloise Butler was an American botanist who became locally famous in Minneapolis for her promotion and development of natural areas. |
1931 - 2022 
Graciela Calderon Graciela Calderon, spouse of fellow botanist Jerzy Rzedowski, was a Mexican botanist an specialist on Neotropical flora. |
1879 - 1965 
Aimee Camus Aimee Camus was a French botanist who studied orchids and oaks and has the distinction of having named 677 species of land plants, the second most of any female botanist. |
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1911 - 1996 
Helen Cannon Helen Leighton Cannon was an American geologist and a pioneer in geobotany, the study of the effects of soil and geology on plant growth and the environment. |
1892 - 1985 
Margery Carlson Margery Claire Carlson was a field biologist, conservationist, and the first female professor at Northwestern University, where she taught for more than 30 years. |
1907 - 1991 
Annetta Carter Annetta Carter was an American botanist who made numerous collections in Baja California and throughout Mexico, and named several new species as a result of her travels in the region. She is an iconic figure in California botany. |
1895 - 1987
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Nellie Carter Nellie Carter was a phycologist in the first half of the 20th Century, specializing on algal chloroplasts. She worked at University of Birmingham, Yale University and the Missouri Botanical Garden. |
1871 - 1936 
Lucy Cavanagh Lucy Cavanaugh was an American schoolteacher and bryologist with expertise in the moss flora of Iowa. She became Assistant Curator of Iowa State University Herbarium. |
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1904 - 1995 
Marion Cave Marion Cave was an American botanist and cytogeneticist who carried out cytologic and genetic research over a wide variety of taxa, including fungi, algae and flowering plants and edited the important reference Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers. |
1897 - 1983 
Marjorie Chandler Marjorie Chandler was an English paleobotanist of the 20th Century. She was originally a research assistant of Eleanor Mary Reid. |
- 1960
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Clara Chapman Clara Chapman was an instructor of botany at Oregon State College, and passed away only six months before she would have received her Ph.D. |
1876 - 1971
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Grace Charles Grace Miriam Charles was an American pteridologist and botanical collector in the early and mid-20th Century |
1869 - 1963 
Mary Chase Agnes Chase was an American agrostologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and authored many publications, including First Book of Grasses, a much-loved guide to a difficult group of plants. |
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1872 - 1960
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Maude Chisholm Maude Chisholm was an American plant collector about whom little is known, whose collections are primarily housed at the Pringle Herbarium, University of Vermont. |
1888 - 1962 
Hettie Chute Hettie Morse Chute was a Canadian educator and botanist on the faculty of Rutgers University. |
1879 - 1969
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Ella Cipperly Ella Maude Cipperly was an American botanist, collector, educator, and spouse of Cornell University professor Karl M. Wiegand. |
1856 - 1929 
Josephine Clark Josephine A. Clark was an American amateur botanist and professional librarian, best remembered as the person who conceived and implemented the Gray Herbarium Card Index. |
1884 - 1967 
Lois Clark Lois Clark was an American bryologist and taxonomic expert on the genus Frullania who worked mostly in the northwestern United States |
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1879 - 1972
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Alice Clark Alice G. Clark was an American plant collector centered in eastern Massachusetts. She was a frequent prizewinner for native plant displays with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. |
1851 - 1916 
Cora Clarke Cora H. Clarke was an American amateur botanist and entomologist who was active in the Sullivant Moss Society and led a botany group for the New England Women's Club. |
1918 - 1993 
Edna Clausen Edna Clausen was an American plant collector and Cornell University graduate who co-collected with her spouse, Cornell professor Robert Clausen. |
1873 - 1968 
Mary Clemens Mary S. Clemens was an American explorer and collector most known for her collections from remote regions of the South Pacific. |
1874 - 1971 
Edith Clements Edith S. Clements was an American botanist, plant ecologist and illustrator and the first woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. She was the spouse of plant ecologist Frederic Clements. |
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1860 - 1925 
Ida Clendenin Ida May Clendenin Atchison was an American secondary school teacher in Brooklyn, New York who described the fungal species Synchytrium geranii in 1895. |
1901 - 1984 
Phyllis E. M. Clinch Phyllis Clinch was an Irish plant pathologist known internationally for her work on potato viruses. |
1897 - 1980 
Elzada Clover Elzada Clover was a cactus specialist and one of the first women to raft through the Grand Canyon while taking part in the Nevills Expedition of 1938. |
1870 - 1957 
Wilmatte Cockerell Wilmatte Porter Cockerell was an American schoolteacher, entomologist, and plant and insect collector in the American west, Guatemala, and the Congo. Her spouse was botanist Theodore Cockerell. |
1724 - 1766 
Jane Colden Jane Colden is considered to be the first female botanist in the (colonial) United States. |
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1845 - 1910 
Emma Cole Emma Jane Cole was an American amateur botanist, and one of the first female members of the Kent Scientific Institute. She was an undergraduate student at Cornell University, but did not complete her degree. |
1870 - 1956 
Rose E. Collom Rose Collom was a self-taught botanist who collected in Arizona and the Grand Canyon, becoming the first paid botanist for the National Park. |
1854 - 1930 
Anna Comstock Anna Botsford Comstock was a naturalist and educator who partnered with Liberty Hyde Bailey to advance rural education in New York state. |
1868 - 1943 
Alice Cook Alice Carter Cook was an American pollination biologist and plant taxonomist, and was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in botany from any U.S. university. A later M.S. was earned from Cornell University. She was also the spouse of botanist Orator Cook. |
1866 - 1950
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Mabel Cook Mabel P. Cook was an American plant collector active with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Lexington Historical Society, who co-collected of the holotype of Carex elachycarpa Fernald. |
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1893 - 1973 
Isabel Cookson Isabel Cookson was an Australian paleobotanist and palynologist who studied coal deposits and fossilized plant remains of the Victoria region. |
1890 - 1975 
Helen Craig Helen Hill Craig, spouse of Cornell University mathematics professor Clyde F. Craig, was an American botanist and artist centered in Ithaca, New York. |
1906 - 1984 |
1854 - 1932
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Alice L. Crockett Alice L. Crockett was an American bryologist working in Maine in the early 20th century. |
1833 - 1871 
Kate Crooks Kate Crooks was a Canadian botanist most noted for her collections cited in the Catalogue of Canadian Plants. |
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1886 - 1943 
Ethel Crum Ethel Crum was an American plant taxonomist, an assistant herbarium curator at University of California, and editor of the botanical journal Madrono. |
1855 - 1906 
Clara Cummings Clara Eaton Cummings was a cryptogamic botanist who collected in Jamaica, and who determined the Alaskan lichen collections made by members of the Harriman Expedition of 1899. |
1929 - 2010 
Elizabeth G. Cutter Elizabeth Cutter was a plant anatomist and highly regarded professor at Scottish and American universities and worked to improve the curriculum and standing of the University of Manchester's School of Biological Sciences. |
1911 - 2011 
Eva Daily Eva Fay Kenoyer Daily was an American phycologist who studied freshwater algae in the midwestern United States and also specialized on the genus Chara and other Characeae. |
1868 - 1934 
Jane Datcher Jane Eleanor Datcher was the first African-American woman to receive an advanced degree from Cornell University, in 1890. |
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1833 - 1921 
Nancy Davis Nancy Jane Davis was an American educator and botanist known for her collections of Californian plants. |
1863 - 1953
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Alice Davy Alice Bolton Davy was an American botanical illustrator and spouse of English botanist Joseph Burtt Davy, who immigrated to South Africa and later to England. Her illustrations appeared in many Burtt Davy articles in Transvaal Agricultural Journal as well as Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Transvaal with Swaziland, South Africa. |
1852 - 1924 
Mary Day Mary Anna Day was a librarian and botanist at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University who compiled and edited the quarterly Gray Card Index |
1879 - 1918
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Ethel de Fraine Ethel de Fraine was a British plant anatomist, morphologist and paleobotanist who specialized on the structure of seedlings |
1935 - 1988 
Jane Decker Jane M. Decker was an American botanist on the faculty of The Ohio State University and later Ohio Wesleyan University, and served as president of the Ohio Academy of Science. |
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1909 - 2000 
Mary Dedecker Mary DeDecker was an American conservationist and botanist dedicated to identifying and preserving the flora of the northern Mojave and Eastern Sierra |
1924 - 2018 
Isa Degener Isa Degener was a German-American agrostologist, best known for her work enumerating the Hawaiian flora with her spouse, Otto. Together they co-authored the seven volume Flora Hawaiiensis. |
1700 - 1788 
Mary Delany Mary Delany was an 18th century English widow of high social standing who created detailed and highly accurate botanical works with paper-mosaicks and embroidery. |
1905 - 1997 
Lauramay Dempster Lauramay Tinsley Dempster was an American botanist who worked closely with Willis Jepson on the flora of California. She later became a Herbarium Botanist (and later Research Geneticist and Research Associate) at University of California, Berkeley. She was an expert on the genus Galium (Rubiaceae). |
1944 - 1994 
Melinda Denton Melinda Denton was a well-known American plant taxonomist who worked on a variety of taxa including Oxalidaceae, Crassulaceae and Cyperaceae. |
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1862 - 1941 
Carrie Derrick Carrie Derrick was a Canadian botanist and geneticist who became the first female professor in a Canadian University. |
1830 - 1886 
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, one of America's great poets, was also an amateur botanist. She prepared her own herbarium while a student at Mt. Holyoke. |
1900 - 1970 
Carola Dickinson Carola Dickinson was a British phycologist working at the Kew Herbarium and author of British Seaweeds. |
1904 - 1972 
Emily Dix Emily Dix was a Welsh paleobotanist who studied the coal measures of Wales and was a lecturer in geology at Bedford College, London, for most of her professional life. |
1887 - 1965 
Ethel Doidge Ethel Doidge was a British-born South African plant pathologist and the first woman to earn a doctorate degree in South Africa. |
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1883 - 1986 
Gertrude Douglas Gertrude Douglas was an American educator and botanist who studied with George Atkinson at Cornell University. |
1901 - 1957 
Kathleen M. Drew Mary Drew Baker was a British phycologist, whose research on the edible seaweed "nori" (Porphyra laciniata) led to its commercial cultivation. |
1850 - 1934 
Constance Dubois Constance Dubois was a well-known American author and self-taught ethnographer who championed and advocated for the culture and well being of the indigenous Diegueno and Luiseno peoples of California. |
1924 - 1993 
Suzanne Duigan Sue Duigan was an Australian botanist, paleobotanist, and aviator whose contributions to science include studies in the Tertiary flora of eastern Australia, the extant flora of Victoria, and systematics of grasses. |
1931 - 2021 
Peggy-Ann Duke Peggy-Ann Kessler Duke was an American botanist and freelance botanical illustrator, and spouse of ethnobotanist James Duke. |
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1872 - 1966
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Elizabeth M. Dunham Elizabeth M. Dunham was an American bryologist who in 1916 published the book How to Know the Mosses without the Aid of a Lens. |
1936 - 2021 
Lenore Durkee Lenore Durkee was an electron microscopist who studied the nectaries of Passiflora species and was long associated with the department of botany at Grinnell College in Iowa. |
1881 - 1963 
Augusta Duthie Augusta Duthie was a South African cryptogamic botanist and plant anatomist who studied plants of the Western Cape Region. |
1907 - 1993 
Sarah Dyal Sarah C. Dyal was an American botanist who earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University, and was an expert on Valerianaceae. |
1859 - 1953 
Alice Eastwood Alice Eastwood was an influential American botanist and curator at the California Academy of Sciences in the early 20th century. |
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1831 - 1908
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Amelia Eby Amelia Flanery Eby was an American amateur plant taxonomist, plant collector and schoolteacher, and a member of the Sullivant Moss Society. |
1880 - 1954 
Sophia H. Eckerson Sophia H. Eckerson was a plant physiologist and microchemist. In addition to basic physiological research, Eckerson compiled useful lists of plant attributes for species commonly used in research and teaching, and thus was a pioneer in the concept of "model organism" and research standardization |
1929 - 2019 
Elizabeth Edgar Elizabeth Edgar was a New Zealand botanist and authority on the flora of New Zealand. |
- 2011 
Joan G. Ehrenfeld Joan G. Ehrenfield was an American plant ecologist who spent 35 years as a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey |
1935 - 2015 
Nancy C. Eldblom Nancy Eldblom was a research librarian who spent her retirement years documenting the flora of St. Lawrence County, New York. |
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1874 - 1956 
Charlotte Ellis Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis was an American amateur botanist and plant collector centered in New Mexico. |
1897 - 1979 
Edith English Edith Hardin English was an American zoologist, educator, and horticulturist centered in Washington state, and the spouse of botanist Carl S. English. |
1894 - 1983 
Beulah Ennis Beulah Enni was an American botanist who earned a Ph.D from Yale University in 1925 writing a thesis entitled The Life Forms of Connecticut Plants and Their Significance in Relation to Climate. |
1899 - 2002
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Eileen Erlanson Eileen Whitehead Erlanson was an American plant cytogeneticist who specialized on cytotaxonomy of the genus Rosa (Rosaceae) |
1898 - 1997 
Katherine Esau Katherine Esau was a Ukrainian-German-American botanist, plant anatomist, and educator whose textbooks on plant anatomy are considered classics. |
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1940 - 1993 
Linda Escobar Linda Escobar was an American botanist and expert on Passiflora who worked and lived in Colombia following a stint in the Peace Corps. |
1919 - 2000 
Mary Fagley Mary Louise Fagley was an American zoologist and avid birder, at one time president of the Colorado Bird Club. |
1865 - 1956
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Edith Farr Edith May Farr was an American botanist and plant collector of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the early 1900s. |
1895 - 1983 
Wanda Farr Wanda Kirkbride Farr was an American botanist who discovered how plants form cellulose in cell walls. |
1899 - 1988 
Mildred E. Faust Mildred Faust was an American botanist and conservationist, and the first woman to receive tenure at Syracuse University, where she taught botany, ecology, and palynology. |
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1879 - 1960 
Edna Fawcett Edna Hague Fawcett was an American plant pathologist and plant physiologist who worked at the New York Botanical Garden and the USDA in the first half of the 20th Century |
1863 - 1951 
Margaret Ferguson Margaret Clay Ferguson was an American plant geneticist, cytogeneticist, physiologist, educator, and the first female president of the American Botanical Society. |
1895 - 1978 
Roxana Ferris Roxana Stinchfield Ferris was an American botanist and plant collector closely associated with the Dudley Herbarium, Stanford University. |
1870 - 1947 
Mary Fisher Mary Jones Fisher was an American biologist and educator and the first woman instructor at the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. |
1911 - 1993 
Dorothy Fisher Dorothy Fisher was an American botanist and educator, a professor at Marshall University. |
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1796 - 1874 
Sarah Fitton Sarah Mary Fitton was an Irish botanist and writer who wrote non-technical books including on botany |
1845 - 1923 
Emily Fletcher Emily Frances Fletcher was an American botanist and plant collector who specialized in "wood-waste" and "wool-waste" sites in New England. |
1861 - 1922 
Nellie Flynn Nellie Francena Flynn was a botanist based in Burlington, Vermont, who primarily collected locally, but also embarked on collecting trips in the eastern United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and North Africa. |
1935 - 1992 
Margot Forde Margot Bernice Forde was a New Zealand botanist and expert in the flora of Inner Mongolia, and pre-eminent researcher in seed conservation of grazing plants. |
1844 - 1929 
Margaret Forrest Lady Margaret Elvire Forrest was a French-born Australian amateur botanist and botanical illustrator, whose art exhibit in 1890 was the first in Australia. |
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1920 - 1997 
Gertrude Foster Gertrude "Bunny" Foster was an American horticulturist and publisher who, with her spouse Philip W. Foster, founded Laurel Hill Herb Farm in New Jersey as well as the magazine The Herb Grower. |
1884 - 1974 
Helen Fox Helen M. Fox was an American horticulturist, lecturer, writer and radio and television personality who produced several gardening books in the 20th century and wrote articles for The New York Times. |
1921 - 2013 
Erica Frank Erica M. Frank was a Welsh-American botanist and professor of biology at Centenary College. |
1847 - 1930 
Harriet Freeman Harriet "Hattie" Freeman was an American botanist, geologist, conservationist, and women's rights advocate. |
1904 - 1999 
Margaret Fulford Margaret Fulford was an American professor and bryologist who studied the leafy hepatics and served as curator of the hepatics herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society. |
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1947 - 2019 
Vicki Funk Vicki A. Funk was an American botanist and taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, regarded as an expert in the family Asteraceae as well as a pioneer in the use and development of modern phylogenetic methods. |
1834 - 1931 
Catherine Furbish Catherine "Kate" Furbish was a botanical illustrator from Brunswick, Maine who dedicated her life to collecting, classifying, and painting Maine's flora. |
1919 - 2007 
Catharine Fussell Catharine Fussell was an American plant cytologist and educator who taught for many years at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pennsylvania. Fussell obtained her M.A. from Cornell University, working with Charles Uhl. |
1921 - 2021 
Erika Gaertner Erika Gaertner was a Czech-Canadian economic botanist whose research was concerned with cultivation, preservation, and preparation of wild edible plants. |
1958 - 2016 
Gloria Galeano Garces Gloria Galeano Garces was a Colombian agronomist and palm specialist. |
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1883 - 1980 
Winifred Gates Winifred Carpenter Gates was an American schoolteacher, antiquarian book dealer, and botanist centered in Amherst, Massachusetts. Some of her plant collections are deposited at Cornell University (BH), and her photograph collection was donated to the Jones Library, Amherst. |
1886 - 1972 
Helen M. Gilkey Helen Gilkey was an American botanical illustrator and mycologist who specialized in the Tuberales, the truffles. |
1932 - 1989 
Amy Gilmartin Amy Jean Gilmartin was an American botanist and plant collector in the New World tropics, and an expert on bromeliads, who served as director of the Marion Ownbey Herbarium, Washington State University. |
1940 - 2021 
Judith Graffius Judith Ann Reighard Graffius was an American plant anatomist and educator on the faculty of Ohio University. |
1881 - 1969 
Adele Grant Adele Gerard Lewis Grant was an American plant taxonomist who specialized in the genera Mimulus and Hemimeris and who founded the Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women's Scientific Fraternity while she was an instructor at Cornell University. |
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1892 - 1982 
Jeannette Graustein Jeannette E. Graustein was an American botanist, plant collector, and educator, on the faculty of University of Delaware. |
1841 - 1897 
Emily Gregory Emily Lovira Gregory was the first American woman to receive a doctorate degree in botany, and the first female faculty member at University of Pennsylvania. |
1912 - 2012 
Mary Grierson Mary Anderson Grierson was a Welsh-born Scottish botanical illustrator, on the staff at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
1906 - 2008
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Mildred Griffith Mildred M. Griffith was an American botanist and educator, and one of the first women to join the faculty after the University of Florida became coeducational. |
1879 - 1967 
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was an English mycologist, geneticist, and botanist who served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during WWI. |
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1880 - 1949 
Carlotta Hall Carlotta Case Hall was an American botanist and activist in the women's suffrage movement in California in the early 20th Century. |
1835 - 1911 
Susan Hallowell Susan Hallowell was an American botanist and educator, and a pioneer in the higher education of women. |
1889 - 1949 
Anna Hancy Anna Jane Hancy was an American botanist, chemist, and educator on the faculty at Asheville-Biltmore Colllege, North Carolina. |
1875 - 1968
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Inez Haring Inez Maria Haring was an American bryologist, mineralogist, and plant collector, and Assistant Honorary Curator of Mosses, New York Botanical Garden. |
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1849 - 1910 
Carolyn Harris Carolyn Wilson Harris was an American lichenologist who wrote the first article on lichens to appear in The Bryologist. |
1856 - 1944 
Carrie Harrison Carrie Harrison was an American botanist who collected thousands of specimens for the U.S. National Herbarium. |
1942 - 2016 
Heidrun Hartmann Heidrun "Heidi" Hartmann was a German plant taxonomist who specialized on the family Aizoaceae and worked extensively in southern Africa. |
1908 - 1991 
Lilian E. Hawker Lilian Hawker was a British mycologist and truffle expert who also studied fungal diseases of cultivated plants and arbuscular mycorrhizae. |
1858 - 1951 
Caroline Haynes Caroline Haynes was an American hepaticologist who was active in the Sullivant Moss Society and provided financial and intellectual support to others in her field of study. |
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1885 - 1953 
Margaret Heatley Margaret Heatley Moss was an English plant collector and instructor of botany on the faculty of Wellesley College, who left the United States for South Africa to head the Botany Department of Huguenot College of Cape Colony for Bertha Stoneman during her sabbatical leave, and later taught at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, before returning to Wellesley College years later as an Exchange Assistant Professor. |
1884 - 1967 
Mary Henry Mary Gibson Henry was an American botanist, horticulturist, and plant collector who became president of the American Horticultural Society. |
1868 - 1930
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Stephanie Herzfeld Stephanie Herzfeld was an Austrian botanist, plant anatomist, and educator. |
1866 - 1963 
Ethel Higgins Ethel Bailey Higgins was an American botanist and photographer, and Curator of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum. |
1796 - 1863 
Orra Hitchcock Orra White Hitchcock was an American botanical illustrator, one of the first female scientific and botanical illustrators in the United States. |
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1913 - 2009 
Barbara Hodge Barbara "Bobbie" Taylor Hodge was an American botanist, artist, and plant collector, as well as an amateur invertebrate paleontologist and fossil collector. |
1889 - 1955 
Elise Hofmann Elise Hofmann was an Austrian geologist and paleobotanist who in 1934 published Palaeohistologie der Pflanze. |
1890 - 1917 
Ruth Holden Ruth Holden was an American paleobotanist and Red Cross nurse who died at the age of 26 during WWI. |
1825 - 1874 
Frances Hooker Harriet Frances Hooker was an English botanist who translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English. She was the spouse of eminent botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. |
1878 - 1924 
Inez Howe Inez Howe was an American botanist and instructor at the Fairbanks Museum of Natural History in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and was an active member of the Vermont Bird and Botany Club. |
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1859 - 1942 
Isabel Howland Isabel Howland was an American women's rights activist and graduate of Cornell University, who collected plants for Dudley's Cayuga Flora. |
1911 - 2009
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Mary Humphreys Mary E. Humphreys was an American botanist and educator, a Professor of Biology at Mary Baldwin University. |
1785 - 1815
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Ellen Hutchins Ellen Hutchins was an Irish plant collector and botanical illustrator. She is considered to be Ireland's first female botanist. Ellen died at the age of 29 due to chronic illness probably exacerbated by treatments with mercury |
1887 - 1980 
Elverta Hutchinson Elverta Groves Hutchinson was a graduate student of Karl M. Wiegand at Cornell University, earning a M.A. in 1937 for her thesis work: A Botanical Survey of Mount Airy Forest Park at Cincinnati, Ohio. |
1893 - 1978
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Irene Jacobsohn Irene Jacobsohn was a Polish-Austrian botanist and serologist, associated with the Staatliches Serotherapeutisches Institut, Wien. |
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1863 - 1935
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Lois Jolley Lois Jolley was an American amateur botanist and ornithologist, whose field observations of Vermont ferns led to the discovery (by C.A. Paris at University of Vermont) that the unusual serpentine maidenhair fern Jolley pointed out were in fact a new species, Adiantum viridimontanum. |
1923 - 2013 
Almut Jones Almut Gitter Jones was a German-American botanist and taxonomist (Asteraceae), who was Herbarium Curator, University of Illinois. |
1914 - 2013 
Mary Jotter Mary Lois Jotter was an American botanist on the faculty of University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She was the spouse of botanist Victor Cutter, Jr. |
1879 - 1967 
Louise Kellogg Louise Kellogg was an American philanthropist and amateur zoologist, paleontologist, and botanist who collected with Annie Montague Alexander. |
1845 - 1932
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Abbie Kent Abbie W. Kent was an American educator and later an evangelical missionary at Kobe Girls' School (later Kobe College), Japan (1887-1897), during which time she made some plant collections, now deposited at Cornell University (BH). |
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1886 - 1958
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Edith Kershaw Edith May Kershaw was a British-Australian botanist and plant collector, and lecturer at University of Adelaide. |
1881 - 1969 
Alice Kibbe Alice L. Kibbe was an American botanist, educator, and philanthropist, who at the age of 41 earned an M.S. degree in botany at Cornell University with Karl M. Wiegand. |
1867 - 1967 
Nielsine Kildahl N. Johanna Kildahl was an American botanist and educator who earned her doctorate from University of Chicago and became a biology teacher in the Chicago school system. |
1864 - 1937 
Charlotte King Charlotte Maria King was an American botanist, mycologist, plant pathologist, and botanical illustrator, serving as Assistant Botanist for the Iowa State College Agricultural Experiment Station and Seed Analyst at Iowa State College. |
1925 - 2005 
Bente King Bente Starcke King was a Danish American botanical illustrator and staff member of the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University. |
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1909 - 1995 
Katherine Kinsel Katherine Kinsel (Muller) was an American botanist, collector, and the director of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden from 1951 until her retirement in 1973. |
1870 - 1954 
Elsie Kittredge Elsie May Kittredge was an American amateur botanist and illustrator who became an expert on the Vermont flora. |
1876 - 
Alice Knox Alice Adelaide Knox was an American botanist and educator who was for a time headmistress of the Greenwich Academy. |
1894 - 1957
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Minna Koch Minna Frotscher Koch, who received her Ph.D. from Cornell, was an American botanical researcher and educator who worked at The New York Botanical Garden and taught at Florida State College for Women. |
1903 - 1987
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Harriette Krick Henriette Krick was a paleobotanist in the early 20th Century. |
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1877 - 1974
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Elsie Kupfer Elsie M. Kupfer was a German-American mycologist, botanist, and educator who worked on plant physiology and fungal taxonomy. |
1914 - 1987 
Ludmilla Kuprianova Ludmilla Andreyevna Kuprianova was a Soviet palynologist closely associated with the Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg. Based on pollen morphology, in 1963 she proposed that the family Nothofagaceae be separated from Fagaceae, which is now widely accepted |
1890 - 1980 
Olga Lakela Olga Korhonen Lakela was a Finnish-American botanist and educator who worked with Heuchera and Tiarella, and who founded the herbarium at University of Minnesota, Duluth. |
1893 - 1977
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LaDema Langdon LaDema Mary Langdon was an American botanist and plant anatomist, and professor at Baltimore Junior College and Goucher College. |
1864 - 1899
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Fanny E. Langdon Fanny Langdon was an American zoologist and neurobiologist, on the faculty at University of Michigan. |
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1925 - 2021 
Jean Langenheim Jean Langenheim was a renowned plant ecologist and mentor to young women in academia whose expertise in plant resins developed over years of research in chemical ecology, ethnobotany and geologic history in ecosystems around the world. |
1904 - 1991 
Ida Langman Ida Kaplan Langman was a Ukrainian-American botanist, plant collector, and educator who specialized in the Mexican flora. Her 1964 work A Selected Guide to the Literature on the Flowering Plants of Mexico is an invaluable reference for all botanists working in Mexico or the southwestern United States. |
1825 - 1900 
Phoebe Lankester Phoebe Lankester, spouse of naturalist Edwin Lankester, was an English botanist and writer of popular treatments on medicinal plants and other botanical subjects. |
1857 - 1933 
Charlotte Laurie Charlottte Louis Laurie was a British botanist, known and respected as an educator, who wrote three textbooks on botany |
1906 - 
Julia Lawrence Julia Ruth lawrence was an American plant anatomist who received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1936. Her thesis was An Anatomical Consideration of the family Boraginaceae |
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1896 - 1993 
Elva Lawton Elva Lawton was an American botanist and bryologist who specialized in western American mosses. |
1901 - 1994 
Suzanne Leclercq Suzanne Leclercq was a Belgian paleobotanist who specialized in Devonian plants. |
1912 - 1990 
Alma Lee lma Theodora Lee was an Australian botanist and systematist associated with the National Herbarium of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and CSIRO. |
1836 - 1923 
Sara Lemmon Sara Plummer Lemmon was an American botanist for whom Mount Lemmon, Arizona, is named, and through her efforts the golden poppy Eschscholzia californica became the California state flower. |
1890 - 1975 
Margaret Levyns Margaret Levyns was a South African plant taxonomist and plant geographer who worked extensively on the Cape Flora. |
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1909 - 1967 
Gwendoline Lewis Gwendoline Joyce Lewis was a South African botanist specializing in Iridaceae and was curator of the South African Museum Herbarium. |
1885 - 1946
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Frances Long Frances L. Long was an American botanist, plant physiologist, and ecologist associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. |
1879 - 1927 
Annie Lorenz Annie Lorenz was a well-respected and published American bryologist, influenced as a young girl by the botanists George G. Kennedy and Edwin Faxon. |
1873 - 1949 
Alice Lounsberry Alice Lounsberry was an American botanist who collaborated with the Australian artist Ellis Rowan to produce several popular North American flora guidebooks. |
1918 - 2000 
Doris Love Doris Love was a Swedish botanist and cytotaxonomist who is credited, along with her spouse Askell Love, with founding the field of cytotaxonomy. |
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1883 - 1978 
Rachel Lowe Rachel Lowe was an American botanist and plant collector with an especial interest in ferns and bryophytes. |
1920 - 2008
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Anna Lundblad Anna Britta Lundblad was a Swedish paleobotanist and bryologist. She was a professor of plant paleontology at Stockholm University as well as curator of the Paleobotanical Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History. |
1908 - 1998
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Amelia Lundell Amelia Anderson Lundell was botanical illustrator and plant collector, who often co-collected with her spouse Cyrus Longworth Lundell in Central America and the United States. |
1871 - 1938 
Anne Lutz Anne May Lutz was an American cytogeneticist at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (of the Carnegie Institution of Washington), who studied the cytological basis of variation using various organisms including Oenothera. |
1907 - 1985
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Isabelle Lycan Isabelle Lycan was a West Virginia plant collector whose specimens can be found at West Virginia University Herbarium. |
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1851 - 1932 
Mary E. Macauley Mary Elizabeth Macauley was a plant collector, schoolteacher, and president of the Botanical Section of the Rochester Academy of Science. She earned an undergraduate degree at Cornell University during her mid-life. |
1911 - 1958
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Evelyn Maino Evelyn Maino was co-author and illustrator of An Illustrated Manual of Pacific Coast Trees and produced illustrations from live material for Ornamental Trees |
1917 - 2008 
Mary Mandels Cornell University alumna Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels was a biochemist whose groundbreaking contributions to research in cellulase activity made her an early advocate of converting biomass into usable fuel. |
1904 - 1988 
Irene Manton Irene Manton was an English botanist who studied fern reproduction and algal cytology using ultraviolet and electron microscopy. |
1910 - 2007 
Georgia Mason Georgia Mason was an American botanist and plant collector who donated more than 4500 specimens to Oregon herbaria, and who authored Guide to the Plants of the Wallowa Mountains of Northeastern Oregon. |
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1906 - 1995 
Mildred Mathias Mildred Matthias was a world-renowned American botanist, taxonomist, conservationist, and educator. |
1943 - 2004 
Celina M. Matteri Celina Matteri was an Argentine phycologist and bryologist working in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. |
1912 - 2004 
Elizabeth McClintock Elizabeth McClintock was an American botanist and conservationist with expertise in native and invasive flora of California. |
1902 - 1992 
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist whose work with Zea mays led to her discovery of genetic transposition, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1983. |
1874 - 1964 
Florence A. McCormick Florence A.McCormick was a mycologist and plant pathologist for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiement Station |
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1905 - 2004 
Ilda McVeigh Ilda McVeigh was an American microbiologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Vanderbilt University. |
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Esther Mead Esther Mead Currier was an American biologist, educator, plant collector, and conservationist on the faculty of Colby Junior College. |
1885 - 1976
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Amy Mekeel Amy Grace Mekeel was a dedicated Quaker and plant taxonomist who was trained at Cornell University with Karl Wiegand and later taught zoology at Cornell for about 30 years. |
1912 - 2009 
Alberta M. W. Mennega Alberta Maria Wilhelmina Mennega was a Dutch botanist, plant systematist, and collector of woods. The extinct genus Mennegoxylon is named for her. |
1924 - 1987 
Margaret Menzel Margaret Young Menzel was an American geneticist best known for her work with Gossypium and Hibiscus. |
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1647 - 1717 
Maria Merian Maria Sibylla Merian was a 17th century German naturalist and artist acclaimed for producing the first accurate depictions of the life cycles of many insects. |
1864 - 1942
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Martha Merry Martha Merry Buell was an American mycologist and educator, noted as among the first female taxonomists in mycology. |
1870 - 1938 
Ynes Mexia Ynes Mexia was a prolific Mexican-American plant collector who worked closely with Alice Eastwood and collected in South and Central America and Alaska. |
1919 - 1998 
Gertrude Miller Gertrude Miller was an American botanist who earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University and taught biology at Northern State University for many years. |
1872 - 1920
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Mary Miller Mary Farnham Miller was an American bryologist from Washington D.C. who collected mosses in New England and was active in the Sullivant Moss Society. |
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1825 - 1900 
Lucy Millington Lucy Millington was an American botanist and mentor to Liberty Hyde Bailey in his youth. |
1873 - 1935 
Lua Minns Lua A. Minns was an American horticulturist and educator, Cornell University's first woman faculty member in Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. |
1906 - 1987 
Lucy B. Moore Lucy B. Moore was a New Zealand plant collector, taxonomist, phycologist, and weed scientist, who contributed to Flora of New Zealand (1952-1970). |
1848 - 1943 
Anna Mulford Anna Isabel Mulford was an American botanist and educator, and was the first student to earn a Ph.D. at Shaw School of Botany, Washington University, St. Louis. |
1905 - 1991
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Charlotte Nast Charlotte Nash was an American plant morphologist, anatomist, and mycologist who, while curator of the Wood Anatomy Laboratory at Harvard University, collaborated with I.W. Bailey. |
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1889 - 1965 
Marie Neal Marie C. Neal was an American botanist, phycologist, and conchologist, and is credited with bringing the Bishop Museum's Herbarium Pacificum back from the brink of ruin and building there a world-renowned collection of Hawaiian plant specimens. |
1894 - 1962
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Maria Neuburg Maria Neuberg was a Russian paleobotanist during the first half of the 20th Century. She produced highly respected works on Paleozoic floras and produced what H.N. Andrews considered to be the most comprehensive treatment of fossil mosses at that time. |
1869 - 1951
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Mary Nichols Cox Mary Alice Nichols Cox was an American mycologist and educator and one of the first two women in the United States to be awarded a D.Sc. |
1864 - 1943 
Grace Niles Grace Greylock Niles was an American botanist and botanical illustrator who had a special interest in native orchids, publishing Bog-Trotting for Orchids in 1904. |
1830 - 1890 
Marianne North Marianne North was a British Victorian era traveling botanical illustrator whose work is known for its meticulous beauty, scientific accuracy, and backgrounds depicting the subject's habitat. Her paintings are on permanent display at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
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1864 - 1922 
Alice Northrop Alice Northrup was an American botanist, teacher and advocate of nature study for children in New York City's public schools. |
1835 - 1912 
Lucy Osband Lucy A. Osband was an American botanist and educator who served as Chair in the Natural Science Department at Michigan State Normal College. |
1888 - 1973 
Marian Osterhout Marian Irwin Osterhout was an American plant physiologist, employed by the Rockefeller Institute, who worked on cell permeability to dyes (among other projects). She was the spouse of fellow plant biologist Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout. |
1825 - 1913 
Maria Owen Maria Louisa Owen was an American schoolteacher and amateur botanist who catalogued the flora and algae of Nantucket Island in the 19th century, and was a founder of the Connecticut Valley Botanical Society. |
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Mary Owens Mary Catherine Owens (Sister Mary dePores Owens) was a Sister of Mercy and botanical collector in New York state. |
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1868 - 1925 
Lula Pace Lula Pace was an American botanist, plant cytologist, geologist, and early proponent of evolution, on the faculty of Baylor University. |
1889 - 1963 
Olive Palgrave Olive Coates Palgrave was a South African botanical illustrator best known for her illustrated book Trees of Central Africa (1956). |
1910 - 1999 
Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker was an American botanist, bryologist and librarian who was noted for helping to establish libraries throughout the world. Parker worked for the Rockefeller Foundation as a librarian in the Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP project) in Mexico from 1947-1958. While in Mexico, Parker published on the hepatics of the Federal District. From 1958-1959, she was stationed in India, then returned to the U.S. and worked in New York City until her retirement in 1970. |
1861 - 1952 
Frances Parsons Frances Theodora Parsons was an American naturalist who authored several popular guides to North American flora. |
1840 - 1911 
Deborah Passmore Deborah Griscom Passmore was a prolific American botanical artist who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is often considered the best artist from the department's early days. |
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1907 - 2013 
Ruth Patrick Ruth Myrtle Patrick was an American phycologist and freshwater biologist/ecologist who primarily worked on diatoms. She was the inventor of the diatometer. She was 105 years old at the time of her death, the longest living botanist in our records thus far (2021). |
1869 - 1964 
Jane Patten Jane Boit Patten was an American botanist whose Central and Southern European botanical collections were given to the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. |
1873 - 1961 
Anne Perkins Anne Perkins was an American physician, botanist and ornithologist who made extensive plant collections primarily in New York, Maine, and Florida. Many of these were deposited at Cornell University (BH). |
1895 - 1992 
Lily Perry Lily May Perry was a Canadian-American botanist at the Arnold Arboretum, best known for work on Asian medicinal plants. |
1895 - 1961 
Ruth Petry Ruth Alice Petry was an assistant in botany at Cornell University and sister of Cornell botany professor Loren Petry. |
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1867 - 1950 
Orra Phelps Orra Parker Phelps was an Adirondack naturalist and plant collector who was mentor to daughter Orra "Doc" Phelps, botanist and mountaineer. |
1793 - 1884 
Almira Phelps Almira Hart Lincoln was an American scientist and author who dedicated her life to the education of young women, influencing some to study botany. |
1907 - 2000
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Mildred Pladeck Mildred Pladeck was an American botanist who earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University. She later worked for the USDA and studied the germination requirements of forage grasses. |
1860 -
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Edna Porter Edna Porter was a Cornell educated architect who served as Field Secretary for the Buffalo Naturalist's Field Club and made botanical collections in the Buffalo area. |
1910 - 2014 
Elsie Quarterman Elsie Quarterman was an American plant ecologist who described the plant communities of the Tennessee cedar glades and rediscovered the Tennessee coneflower, Echinacea tennesseensis, thought to be extinct. |
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1892 - 1970 
Ellen Quillin Ellen Schulz Quillin was an Amerian botanist and educator, and the founder and director of the Witte Museum, San Antonio. |
1947 - 1987 
Deborah Rabinowitz Deborah Rabinowitz was a plant ecologist who developed a well-received framework for characterizing rare plant species. She became a professor at Cornell University in 1982 where she remained until her untimely death in 1987. |
1897 - 1981 
Fannie Randolph Fannie Rane Randolph was an American plant collector who received her M.A. from Cornell University, where she met her future spouse, botanist L.F. Randolph, with whom she co-collected numerous plant specimens now in the Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), Cornell University. |
1911 - 2011
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Louise Raynor Louise Raynor, who received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1945, prepared illustrations for Professor Lester Sharp's Fundamentals of Cytology (1943). |
1875 - 1954
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Margaret Rea Margaret Williamson Rea was a Northern-Irish botanist, plant physiologist, and myxomycologist. |
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1894 - 1988 
Fredda Reed Fredda D. Reed was an American paleobotanist and educator who did early investigations on North American Carboniferous coal-ball plants. |
1860 - 1953
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Eleanor Reid Eleanor Mary Reid was a paleobotanist who devised new methods for the identification of floral fossils and authored many publications on the English fossil flora. |
1852 - 1936
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Mary Reynolds Mary Collins Reynolds was an American botanist and plant collector who mainly worked with ferns. |
1891 - 1983 
Louisa E. Rhine Louisa Ella Rhine was an American botanist but perhaps best known as "the first lady of parapsychology." |
1881 - 1977 
Edith Roberts Edith Roberts was an American botanist and plant physiologist, and professor at Vassar College who created the first ecological laboratory in the United States. |
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1867 - 1962 
Winifred Robinson Winifred Josephine Robinson was an American botanist who studied Hawaiian ferns, and was the first dean of the Women's College of the University of Delaware. |
1897 - 1990
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Muriel Roscoe Muriel V. Roscoe was a Canadian botanist and cytotaxonomist who worked with noted paleobotanist Edward Jeffrey at Harvard University. |
1871 - 1958
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Eda Round Eda M. Round was an American botanist, paleobotanist, and educator who earned her Ph.D. at Brown University. |
1896 - 1986
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Lucile Roush Lucile Roush was an American phycologist and plant collector, the spouse of paleobotanist and plant geographer Herbert Louis Mason. |
1848 - 1922 
Ellis Rowan Ellis Rowan was a world-renowned Australian botanical illustrator who created illustrations for Alice Lounsberry's A Guide to the Wild Flowers and other volumes. |
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1910 - 1999 
Velva Rudd Velva E. Rudd was an American botanist specializing in legumes, and curator at United States National Herbarium. |
1877 - 1949 
Caroline Rumbold Caroline T. Rumbold was an American botanist and phytopathologist who was an early worker on chestnut blight with USDA. |
1839 - 1913
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Mary Rust Mary Olivia Rust was an American amateur botanist and plant collector, active with the Syracuse Botanical Club. |
1896 - 1981
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Mabel Ruttle Mabel L. Ruttle was an American plant cytogeneticist who conducted cytological research on Nicotiana and was associated with the New York State Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. |
1922 - 1986 
Marie-Helene Sachet Marie-Helene Sachet was a French botanist with an interest in the plants of Micronesia. She was curator at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). |
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1883 - 1952
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Ethel Sanborn Ethel Ida Sanborn was an American paleobotanist and bryologist who studied extant and extinct floras in the northwestern US |
1863 - 1918 
Ethel Sargant Ethel Sargant was a British botanist, cytologist and plant morphologist, and was one of the first female members of the Linnean Society. |
1879 - 1975 
Sophia Satina Sophia Satina was a Russian cytologist and assistant professor of botany at the Women's University in Moscow until she emigrated to the U.S., where she did research on the genus Datura as an assistant professor at Smith College and the Genetics Experiment Station there. |
1923 - 1989 
Ruth Satter Ruth Lyttle Satter was an American plant physiologist who studied movement in plants. |
1955 - 2018 
Rachel Saunders Rachel Saunders was a South African botanist and horticulturist (co-proprietor of Silverhill Seeds) who, along with her spouse Rod Saunders, was found murdered in South Africa in 2018. |
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1865 - 1945 
Edith Saunders Edith Rebecca Saunders was a pioneering British anatomist and geneticist who specialized on floral anatomy and morphology and worked closely with William Bateson. |
1876 - 1939 
M. Louise Sawyer Mary Louise Sawyer was a 19th-20th Century American botanist |
1911 - 1992 
Geneva Sayre Geneva Sayre was an American bryologist who worked on the moss genus Grimmia. |
1890 - 1990 
Hazel M. Schmoll Hazel M. Schmoll was an American botanist who concentrated on the flora of southwestern Colorado and was the first woman to earn a doctorate in botany from the University of Chicago. |
1913 - 2000 
Bernice G. Schubert Bernice Shubert was Curator of the Harvard University Herbaria, conducted research on plant alkaloids and on the genus Begonia, and was editor of the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, and other botanical works. |
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Olga M. Schutay Olga M. Schutay accompanied her spouse, Rudolf Schuster, on field trips and co-collected botanical specimens with him. |
1862 - 1929 
Henderina Scott Hederina Scott was an English botanist who, in the early 20th century, produced time-lapse films of plant movement. |
1891 - 1984 
Flora Scott Flora M. Scott was a Scottish-American plant anatomist and plant physiologist, who was Chairperson of the Dept. of Botany, University of California, Los Angeles. |
1857 - 1940 
Katherine Sessions Katherine Olivia Sessions was an American horticulturalist and landscape architect best known for helping develop public spaces in San Diego, California. |
1869 - 1934
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Clara Setchell Clara Ball Pearson Setchell was an American amateur botanist and plant collector. |
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1862 - 1940 
Elsie L. Shaw Elsie Shaw was the illustrator for Theodora Parson's well-received How to Know the Wildflowers in 1893, the first guide to the wildflowers of North America. |
1878 - 1956 
Edith Shreve Edith Bellamy Shreve was an American chemist and botanist who studied the physiology of desert plants. |
1838 - 1926 
Annie Slosson Annie Trumbull Slosson was a self-taught American naturalist, entomologist, and botanist, and a founder and first female member of the New York Entomological Society. |
1895 - 1997 
Cornelia Smith Cornelia Marschall Smith was an American biologist and botanist who served on the faculty of Baylor University and John B. Stetson University during her long professional career (1928-1967). While at Baylor University, she was also Curator of the Strecker Museum. |
1856 - 1946 
Annie Smith Annie Morrill Smithwas an amateur American botanist and bryologist, involved with the Sullivant Moss Society and editor of The Bryologist. |
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1897 - 1976 
Edith Smith Edith Philip Smith was a Scottish botanist and educator who became Head of the Botany Department, Queen's College, Dundee (today University of Dundee). |
1854 - 1926 
Matilda Smith Matilda Smith, second cousin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, was a highly productive (Indian-born) English botanical illustrator known for her contributions to Curtis's Botanical Magazine and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. She was the first artist to thoroughly depict New Zealand plants, the first official artist at Kew, and the second woman to ever be elected to the Linnaean Society. |
1863 - 1927
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Julia Snow Julia W. Snow was an American botanist, phycologist, and systematist, and served on the faculty at Smith College. |
1874 - 1972 
Laetitia Snow Laetitia Snow was an American professor of botany at Wellesley College who shared an interest in aquatic plants with Karl M. Wiegand at Cornell University, whom she consulted for her study of the Delaware coast. |
1630 - 1715 
Mary Somerset Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, was an English noblewoman, gardener and botanist. |
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1860 - 1947 
Effie Southworth Effie Almira Southworth was a botanist, mycologist, and the first woman plant pathologist to be hired by the USDA. |
1884 - 1966 
Edith Stephens Edith Layard Stephens was a South African plant anatomist, phycologist and mycologist. |
1911 - 1990 
Greta Stevenson Greta Stevenson was a New Zealand botanist, microbiologist, mycologist, educator, and botanical illustrator who wrote several books on New Zealand plants and fungi. |
1919 - 2012 
Gladys Stewart Gladys Carroll Stewart was an American botanist, bryologist, and horticulturist who worked at the New York Botanical Garden and George Washington University. |
1893 - 1970 
Grace Stewart Grace Anne Stewart was a Canadian geologist and paleobotanist, and the first female graduate in geology in Canada, at University of Alberta. |
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Pearl Stokes Pearl Stokes is/was a British plant physiologist and plant anatomist at University College in London, who published on embryology of Heracleum sphondylium. |
1877 - 1968 
Alma G. Stokey Alma Stokey was a pteridologist and professor at Mt. Holyoke College who collected in India, Java, Ceylon and Formosa on her worldwide trips and while teaching at the University of Madras in India. |
1866 - 1943 
Bertha Stoneman Bertha Stoneman was an American botanist, educator, and Cornell alumna who settled and worked in South Africa and established the herbarium at Huguenot College, Wellington. |
1880 - 1958 
Marie Stopes Marie Stopes was a celebrated and controversial paleobotanist, poet and writer of popular books and at least one novel. Her contributions to paleobotany in the early 20th Century are important, and she is credited with the discovery of the pteridosperms. Her self-help books focused on sex, marriage and family life. Stopes was also was a noted eugenicist and early advocate for birth control. She was the subject of some public scandals, most notably her romantic affair with the Japanese botanist Kenjiro Fujii |
1850 - 1932 
Louise Stowell Louise Stowell was an American plant anatomist and microscopist, and the first female teacher at the University of Michigan. |
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1911 - 2001 
Irene Stuckey Irene Hawkins Stuckey was an American botanist, plant physiologist, and economic botanist who became well-known for her nature photography. |
1869 - 1958 
Libbie Sweetland Libbie Jayne Sweetland was an American educator and plant collector, and the first female school commissioner in Tompkins County, New York. |
1911 - 1990 
Marie Taylor Marie Clark Taylor was an American botanist and educator as well as the first woman to graduate from Fordham University with a doctorate in the sciences. Taylor served in the Red Cross in the Pacific during WWII. |
1856 - 1932
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Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor was an American artist, travel journalist, and botanist. She traveled extensively, notably to Canada, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands. |
1872 - 1952
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Alexandrina Taylor Alexandrina Taylor was an American pteridologist and botanical illustrator who worked and published with Elizabeth Britton |
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Aravilla Taylor We know little about Aravilla Taylor other than what can be gleaned from her publications. Her work focused on the ecology of bryophytes, especially in New York state. |
1906 - 2002 
Bonnie Templeton Bonnie C. Templeton was a pioneering female botanist and Curator of Botany for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. |
1840 - 1911 
Ellen Thompson Ellen Powell Thompson was an American botanist, teacher and suffregaette. She was sister of John Wesley Powell, and spouse of the geographer Almon Harris Thompson, and participated in the second Powell Expedition in the American west in 1872. On this expedition, Ellen collected numerous plant specimens in the vicinity of Kabab, Utah, and kept an extensive diary. |
1863 - 1954 
Emma Thompson Emma Jane Thompson was an American physician and botanist who mainly collected in Connecticut. |
1913 - 2004 
Betty Thomson Betty Flanders Thomson was an American botanist and faculty member at Connecticut College. |
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1823 - 1898 
Eliza Tibbets Eliza Tibbets was one of the first settlers of European descent in Riverside, California and the first person to successfully cultivate hybrid seedless navel oranges in the state. |
1869 - 1957 
Josephine E. Tilden Josephine E. Tilden was an American phycologist and expert on Pacific algae, and was the first woman scientist on the faculty of University of Minnesota. |
1920 - 2011 
Mary Tindale Mary Douglas Tindale was an Australian pteridologist and the first principle research scientist for the New South Wales (NSW) Public Works. |
1830 - 1923 
Mary Treat Mary Treat was a highly productive American naturalist who studied carnivorous plants in the New Jersey pine barrens. |
1888 - 1969 
Michiyo Tsujimura Michiyo Tsujimura was the first woman to earn a doctorate in Japan in agriculture (Tokyo Imperial University in 1932). As a plant biochemist, she isolated compounds from tea including flavonoids and vitamin C, even patenting a process for extracting crystalline vitamin C. |
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1919 - 2017 
Natalie Uhl Natalie Whitford Uhl was an American botanist, palm systematist, and professor at Cornell University. |
1863 - 1955 
Anna Vail Anna Murray Vail was an American botanist who, with Nathaniel Lord Britton, helped found the New York Botanical Garden, where she became the first librarian. |
1954 - 2020 
Sherry Vance Sherry Vance was a staff member in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), at Cornell University. Sherry became the Curator of the Ethel Zoe Bailey Horticultural Catalogue Collection, and also worked in various aspects of herbarium curation, record keeping, and management. |
1896 - 1989 
Inez Verdoorn Inez C. Verdoorn was a South African plant taxonomist who published extensively on the South African flora. The genus Inezia (Asteraceae) is named for her, as are several plant species. |
1954 - 1988
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Margaret Vodicka Peggy Vodicka was an American botanist, and spouse of hydrologist Clyde Ellis Asbury. A graduate student at the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, she was a teaching assistant to Professor Michael D. Whalen in the Plant Taxonomy course. She died before completing her degree. |
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1098 - 1179 
Hildegard von Bingen St. Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine abbess believed by many Europeans to be the founder of natural science in Germany. |
1919 - 2019 
Florence Wagner Florence S. Wagner was an American botanist, cytologist, and pteridologist who, with her spouse Warren H. Wagner, revolutionized the understanding of fern systematics using cytology and chromosome numbers. |
1886 - 1972 
Elsie Wakefield Elsie Maude Wakefield was a 20th Century English mycologist and specialist in the Basidiomycota and Aphyllophorales. |
1860 - 1940 
Mary Walcott Mary Vaux Walcott was a prominent American botanical illustrator and photographer, who illustrated North American Wildflowers (1925). She also developed photographic negatives for Charles Dolittle Walcott (whom she would later marry), taken during expeditions to the Canadian Rockies in the early 20th Century. |
1877 - 1971 
Elda Walker Elda Walker was an American botanist who taught botany and conducted research on grass floral morphology as well as life history and development of Equisetum at the University of Nebraska. She was a sibling of the mycologist Leva Belle Walker |
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1878 - 1970 
Leva Walker Leva Belle Walker was an American mycologist who earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1927. She was a sibling of the botanist Elda Walker. |
1897 - 1993 
Katherine Warington Katherine Warington was an English plant physiologist and the first to demonstrate that boron (as boric acid) was an essential plant micronutrient. |
1861 - 1939 
Mary Warren Mary Schaffer Warren was an American-Canadian naturalist, illustrator, photographer, and writer who is noted for her exploration of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. |
1878 - 1957 
Una Weatherby Una Foster Weatherby was a photographer and illustrator who produced work in support of the research efforts of her spouse, the pteridologist Charles Alfred Weatherby. |
1896 - 1990 
Winona Welch Winona Hazel Welch was an American bryologist, the first woman to head the DePauw University Biology Department and the first female president of the Indiana Academy of Science. |
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1912 - 1991 
Mary Wharton Mary Wharton was an American botanist, educator and conservationist in her native Kentucky, and head of the Biology Department at Georgetown College. |
1847 - 1927
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Harriet Wheeler Harriet Wheeler was an American collector of mosses in the northeastern United States, and a member of the Sullivant Moss Society. |
1875 - 1941
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Luella Whitney Luella Whitney was an American botanist and mycologist who received her A.B. degree from Cornell University. |
1905 - 1984 
Mary Wilde Mary Hitchcock Wilde was a plant anatomist on the faculty of Texas Western College. She earned her doctorate at Cornell University in 1942. |
1920 - 2003
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Antoinette Wilkinson Antoinette Miele Wilkinson was an Italian-American research editor, plant collector, and educator, and a Research Associate at Cornell University who published a series of papers on floral anatomy. |
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1917 - 2000
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Margaret J. Williams Margaret J. Williams was an American botanist noted for her collections and work in Nevada |
1791 - 1828 
Anne Wollstonecraft Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft was an American botanist and botanical illustrator best known for her extensive three-volume illustrated manuscript Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba. |
1882 - 1964 
Anna Wright Anna Allen Wright was an American herpetologist who received her B.S. at Cornell University. |
1880 - 1972
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Elizabeth Wuist Elizabeth Wuist is known for her studies of apogamy in ferns and for her plant collecting in Australasia. |
1880 - 1971 
Kono Yasui Yasui Kono was a Japanese biologist and cytologist and the first woman in Japan to earn a Ph.D. in the sciences. |
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1872 - 1919 
Mary S. Young Mary Sophie Young was an American plant anatomist and plant taxonomist. Young worked with Coulter and Chamberlain at the University of Chicago prior to moving to Austin, Texas in 1910. She became he first curator of the University of Texas Herbarium in 1912, and collected extensively in the region until her untimely death at the age of ca. 47 |
1826 - 1882 
Maude Young Maud Jeannie Young was a teacher, writer, and botanist from Beaufort, North Carolina, who briefly served as the State Botanist of Texas. She published Familiar Lessons in Botany, with Flora of Texas in 1873, the first flora of the state. Her personal herbarium was destroyed in the Galveston hurricane of 1900. |