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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. |
1905 - 2000 
Ernst Abbe Ernst Cleveland Abbe was an American plant anatomist trained at Cornell University known for his work on Betulaceae and Myrsinaceae. He collected widely in Canada and Southeast Asia. |
1889 - 1957 
Ernst Artschwager Ernst Artschwager was a German-American botanist and plant anatomist who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1918. |
1884 - 1967 
Irving Bailey Irving Widmer Bailey (I.W. Bailey) was a celebrated American plant anatomist. He extended his work into paleobotany, especially in reference to wood structure and the evolution of xylary elements. |
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1860 - 1933 
Charles Barber Charles A. Barber was a South African plant anatomist and taxonomist who was also involved in developing hybrid sugarcane varieties suitable for India. |
1927 - 2024 
Charles B. Beck Charles B. Beck was an American paleobotanist and plant anatomist on the faculty of University of Michigan. From Green Bay, VA, Beck earned his doctorate at Cornell University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Glasgow University. He began his faculty career at University of Michigan in 1955 and served for a time as chair of the Department of Botany, as well as director of the Museum of Paleontology. He made many contributions to the early history of land plants, and authored a book "An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development" which was published in several editions. He retired in 1991. |
1851 - 1917 
Charles Bertrand Charles Eugene Bertrand was a French paleobotanist and plant anatomist, and father of botanist Paul Charles Edouard Bertrand. The elder Bertrand served on the faculty of Universite de Lille, and is known for his theories regarding the formation of coal. |
1879 - 1944 
Paul Bertrand Paul Bertrand was a French paleobotanist and plant anatomist, son of the paleobotanist Charles Eugene Bertrand. The younger Bertrand became director of the Lille "coal museum" and, like his father, studied Carboniferous plants. |
1924 - 1997 
David W. Bierhorst David Bierhorst was an American plant morphologist, anatomist, and plant collector, especially noted for his work on Psilotum and his textbook on plant morphology. |
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1913 - 1996 
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Norman Boke Norman Boke was an American plant anatomist who specialized in the family Cactaceae. He studied development of both vegetative and floral features of cacti. The genus Normanbokea was named in his honor. |
1865 - 1941
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Leonard Boodle Leonard Boodle was a British plant anatomist, morphologist and pteridologist, who was an assistant keeper at the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. |
1773 - 1858 
Robert Brown Robert Brownwas a Scottish biologist and microscopist who was the first to recognize the fundamental differences between gymnosperms and angiosperms, and who discovered the phenomenon known as "Brownian motion." |
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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 |
1888 - 1951 
John Buchholz John T. Buchholz was an American plant anatomist and collector who worked mostly on reproduction and embryology of gymnosperms, and who collected extensively in New Caledonia. |
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1870 - 1958
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William Cannon William Austin Cannon was an American plant physiologist, plant ecologist, plant geneticist/cytogeneticist and plant anatomist who was one of the first scientists (in 1902) to suggest the role of chromosomes in heredity, although credit is given to two contemporary animal geneticists. His early work was on the nature of hybrids. He was the first investigator at the Carnegie Institute's Desert Laboratory, where he studied roots systems and the ecology of desert plants. His classification of root systems is still in use. |
1930 - 2021 
Sherwin Carlquist Sherwin Carlquist was an American plant anatomist and wood anatomist, a photographer, and as a contributor to the study of island biology and biogeography. He is known outside of the scientific community for having been an early organizer and advocate for gay rights in the United States. |
1818 - 1887 
Robert Caspary Robert Caspary was a German plant anatomist and expert on the family Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). He discovered a thickened cell wall band in the endodermis of plant roots which he termed "Schuchtzscheide" and which is today known as the "Casparian strip." |
1910 - 1995 
Vernon I. Cheadle Vernon Cheadle was a plant anatomist, professor and administrator who conducted research on the vessels of monocotyledons. His specimens and archived data were deposited at the Vernon I. Cheadle and Katherine Esau Structural Botanical Collections at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Botanical Society of America funds travel grants for students in honor of Cheadle's teaching. |
1871 - 1963 
Mintin Chrysler Mintin Asbury Chrysler was an American plant anatomist, pteridologist, and paleobotanist. His work encompassed a large variety of plants and fossil plants. |
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1888 - 1962 
Hettie Chute Hettie Morse Chute was a Canadian educator and botanist on the faculty of Rutgers University. |
1872 - 1953 
William Coker William C. Coker was an American plant anatomist, educator,and mycologist centered at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He studied embryology and ferilization in various gymnosperms early in his career. |
1902 - 1968 
Herbert Copeland Herbert Copeland was an American biologist and plant anatomist who proposed a four-kingdom classification of life by creating the novel Kingdom Monera. |
1809 - 1849 
August Corda August Joseph Corda was a Czech mycologist, plant anatomist and paleobotanist. He was tragically killed in the shipwreck of the Victoria in 1849 while returning from a fossil collecting trip in Texas, USA. Most of his collections from that trip were lost with him. |
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. |
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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 |
1941 - 1999 
William Dickison William Campbell Dickison was an American botanist, plant anatomist, and educator at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with expertise in the family Dilleniaceae. |
1891 - 1974
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Joseph Doyle Joseph Doyle was a Scottish-born Irish plant anatomist, plant physiologist and pollination biologist who worked mostly on conifer anatomy and embryology. His work extended to physiological mechanisms of cold tolerance in conifers. |
1881 - 1969 
Arthur Eames Arthur J. Eames was an American botanist, plant anatomist, and plant collector on the faculty of Cornell University, and author of multiple groundbreaking textbooks as well as co-author with Karl Wiegand of Flora of the Cayuga Lake Basin. |
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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1928 - 1990
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Richard H. Eyde Richard Eyde was an American plant systematist and paleobotanist who worked on a variety of modern and fossil taxa as well as the history of angiosperms and evolution of flowers |
1865 - 1944 
John Farmer John Bretland Farmer was an English botanist and professor at Imperial College London who, along with John E.S. Moore, coined the term "meiosis" in 1905. |
1901 - 1973 
Adriance Foster Adriance Sherwood Foster was an American plant anatomist who served on the faculty of University of California, Berkeley. |
1887 - 1955 
Frank Gates Frank C. Gates was a plant anatomist and vegetation ecologist who served on the faculty of the University of the Philippines, the University of Michigan Biological Field Station, and Kansas State College. |
1860 - 1929 
Robert Gibson Robert John Harvey Gibson was a Scottish botanist and professor at University of Liverpool who authored several academic publications, including Contributions Towards a Knowledge of the Anatomy of the Genus Selaginella (1896), which he also illustrated. |
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1920 - 2006 
Ernest M. Gifford Ernest Gifford was an American botanist and cytochemist whose collaborative work with Ralph Stocking gave the first evidence of DNA in chloroplasts, with far-reaching significance in the field of molecular systematics. |
1940 - 2021 
Judith Graffius Judith Ann Reighard Graffius was an American plant anatomist and educator on the faculty of Ohio University. |
1852 - 1928 
Jean Guignard Leon Guignard was a French botanist who (independently of Sergei Navashin) is credited with the discovery of double fertilization in flowering plants. |
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. |
1914 - 2003 
Charles Heimsch Charles Heimsch was an American botanist and plant anatomist on the faculty of Miami University. There, Charles Heimsch Graduate Award in Botany was founded in his honor. |
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1875 - 1941 
Arthur Hill Arthur William Hill was an English plant anatomist and plant collector who served as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hill collected in South America and the Caribbean, among other places. |
1856 - 1925 
Sakugoro Hirase Hirase Sakugoro was a Japanese botanist noted for discovery of spermatozoids of Ginkgo biloba in 1894. |
1889 - 1968 
Carl Hoar Carl Sherman Hoar was an American plant anatomist and cytogeneticist trained at Harvard University, and was a professor of Botany at Williams College in Massachusetts. |
1854 - 1932 
Herman Holm Herman Theodor Holm was a Danish-American plant morphologist, horticulturist and plant pathologist. He had expertise in Arctic plants, medicinal plants, and the family Cyperaceae (sedges). |
1900 - 1945 
Jose B. Juliano Jose B. Juliano was a Filipino plant anatomist on the faculty of the University of the Philippines, Manila. Juliano was killed by the retreating Japanese military forces toward the end of WWII, as were several of his colleagues. |
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1938 - 2007 
Donald R. Kaplan Donald R. Kaplan was an American plant anatomist, morphologist and evolutionary botanist who worked on development, organogenesis and homology in green plants. |
1935 - 2019 
Robert Kaul Robert B. Kaul was an American botanist and educator whose research centered on the flora of the Great Plains, and was lead author of Flora of Nebraska. |
1874 - 1960 
William Lang William Henry Lang was an English botanist and paleobotanist on the faculty of University of Manchester, who is credited with the discovery of the sporangium on the prothallus of ferns. |
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. |
1902 - 1966 
Richard Laubengayer Richard A. Laubengayer was a bryologist, educator, and textbook author who began his career studying corn morphology and anatomy at Cornell University. |
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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 |
1870 - 1927 
Abercrombie Lawson Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson was a Canadian cytogeneticist, plant anatomist and morphologist on the faculty of University of Sydney, who studied the origins and evolution of gymnosperms. He was also an advocate of environmental conservation in Australia. |
1886 - 1915
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Ernest Lee Ernest Lee was a British plant anatomist who was killed at the age of 29 in the trenches of World War I. |
1835 - 1888 
Hubert Leitgeb Hubert Leitgeb was an Austrian plant anatomist and morphologist who studied at and joined the faculty of Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz. His interest lay partly in cryptogams, and from 1874-1881 published a 6-part series on liverworts titled Untersuchungen ueber die Lebermoose. |
1855 - 1916 
Octave Lignier Octave Lignier was a French plant morphologist and paleobotanist noted for his studies of Cycadofilicales, Bennettitales, and Coniferales. |
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1888 - 1986 
Laurence MacDaniels Laurence H. MacDaniels, a colleague of L.H. Bailey, was a plant anatomist and horticulturalist who studied and worked at Cornell University for many years, including heading the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture during WWII. The MacDaniels Nut Grove at Cornell is named in his honor. |
1899 - 2004 
Wayne Manning Wayne Manning was an American horticulturist and plant anatomist with research interests in the Juglandaceae who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was briefly an instructor in botany there before proceeding to a career teaching botany at Smith College and later, at Bucknell University. Wayne lived to be 104 years of age (our oldest botanist lived 105 years). |
1886 - 1971 
George Martin George Willard Martin was an American mycologist and botanist on the faculty of University of Iowa. He also published on the Myxomycetes. |
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. |
1917 - 1980 
Harold Emery Jr. Moore Hal Moore was an American plant taxonomist and professor at the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. He specialized on palms and gesneriads, as well as the flora of Hidalgo, Mexico. |
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1935 - 2014 
Leonard Morrow Leonard Morrow was an American educator and palm anatomist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University under Harold E. Moore, Jr. in 1965. |
1918 - 2003 
Maynard Moseley Maynard Mosely was a plant anatomist and taxonomist on the faculty of University of California, Santa Barbara, who specialized in the family Nymphaeaceae. |
1864 - 1940 
David Mottier David Myers Mottier was an American plant anatomist on the faculty of Indiana University, considered an early advocate of preservation of the woodland campus aesthetic. |
1912 - 1995 
Elmer Palmatier Elmer Arthur Palmatier was an American plant taxonomist and plant anatomist. He completed his Ph.D. thesis on Saxifragaceae at Cornell University in 1943 under the guidance of Arthur J. Eames. Palmatier was Professor of Botany at the University of Rhode Island for 40 years. |
1916 - 2008 
Barbara F. Palser Barbara Palser was an American plant anatomist and physiologist, and plant collector, on the faculty of University of Chicago and later Rutgers University, and was the editor of The Botanical Gazette. |
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1887 - 1970 
Loren Petry Loren Clifford Petry was an American plant anatomist and pteridologist who was a professor at Cornell University |
1913 - 1988 
Richard A. Popham Richard A. Popham was a plant anatomist on the faculty of The Ohio State University, and from 1943-1945 oversaw radiation safety in the Chemistry-Metallurgy Division for the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos, New Mexico. |
1895 - 1986 
Eduardo Quisumbing Eduardo Quisiumbing was a Filipino plant taxonomist, ethnobotanist, plant anatomist and orchid specialist. |
1870 - 1942 
Francis Ramaley Francis Ramaley was an American plant ecologist and plant geographer on the faculty of University of Colorado. He is best known for his vegetation studies in the montane regions of Colorado, as well as of sandhill environments. |
1922 - 1978
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Robert J. Rodin Robert J. Rodin was an American plant anatomist and ethnobotanist on the faculty of California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, who studied Gnetaceae, ethnobotany of Ovamboland, and taxonomy of California pteridophytes. |
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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. |
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. |
1860 - 1920
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Hans Solereder Hans Solereder was a German plant anatomist at the end of the 19th and early 20th Century. |
1884 - 1966 
Edith Stephens Edith Layard Stephens was a South African plant anatomist, phycologist and mycologist. |
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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. |
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1916 - 1980 
Bengaluru Swamy B.G.L. Swamy was an Indian botanist, plant anatomist, historian, and linguist. He served on the faculty of Presidency College, Chennai, eventually becoming Principal. |
1889 - 1970 
Walter Thompson Walter Palmer Thompson was a Canadian plant anatomist, morphologist and cytogeneticist. He is most known for his work on Gnetales, and in particular, comparison of gnetalean vessels with angiosperm vessels. |
1911 - 1999 
Oswald Tippo Oswald Tippo was the first chancellor of the University of Massachusetts and taught botany at that institution until his retirement in 1982. |
1918 - 2010 
Charles Uhl Charles Uhl was a well-known cytologist, taxonomist and cytotaxonomist who worked extensively on Crassulaceae. Uhl was a faculty member at Cornell University and the spouse of Natalie Whitford Uhl, noted plant anatomist and palm taxonomist. |
1919 - 2017 
Natalie Uhl Natalie Whitford Uhl was an American botanist, palm systematist, and professor at Cornell University. |
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1931 - 2020 
Waldo S. Walker Waldo S. Walker was an American plant anatomist and physiologist, and professor of biology at Grinnell College. |
1892 - 1989 
Ralph H. Wetmore Ralph H. Wetmore was a Canadian-American plant physiologist and anatomist who served on the faculty of Harvard University for most of his career. |
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. |
1939 - 2021 
Allan Witztum Allan Witztum was an American plant anatomist on the faculty of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He earned his doctorate at Cornell University. |
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1904 - 1963 
Robert Woodson Robert E. Woodson was an American botanist and plant anatomist, monographer of the family Apocynaceae, and initiator of the publication Flora of Panama (completed posthumously). He served as curator of the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1948 until his early death. |
1910 - 1992 
Ren Xu Xu Ren (Hsu Jen) was a Chinese paleobotanist and palynologist who was a student of Birbal Sahni, and nephew of plant anatomist Zhang Jingyue. Xu served as director of the Palaeobotany Laboratory of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was especially interested in the Devonian flora of Yunnan. |
1895 - 1972 
Conway Zirkle Conway Zirkle was an American plant cytologist and anatomist, as well as a science historian. He served on the faculty of University of Pennsylvania. |