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1919 - 2010 
Isabella Abbott Isabella Aiona Abbott was an internationally renowned phycologist and the world's leading expert on Pacific seaweeds. |
1837 - 1902 
Timothy Allen Timothy Allen was an American homeopathic physician and active member of the Torrey Botanical Club who studied the Characeae, authoring the two-volume Characeae of North America in 1888. |
1833 - 1902 
Alfred Bennett Alfred William Bennett was an English publisher and botanist whose studies in flower fertilization established terminology still in use. He was also an expert in the family Polygalaceae as well as the Swiss alpine flora. |
1866 - 1947 
Frederick Blackman Frederick Frost Blackman was a 19th-20th Century English phycologist and plant physiologist, who studied photosynthesis and produced a classification of the green algae. |
1909 - 1987 
Harold Bold Harold Charles Bold was an American botanist, phycologist, and educator who worked primarily on soil algae. |
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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. |
1878 - 1945 
Frederic Butters Frederic King Butters was an American mycologist and botanist on the faculty of University of Minnesota. He was an avid mountaineer as well, and Mt. Butters in British Columbia was named in his honor. |
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. |
1865 - 1934 
Robert Chodat Robert Hippolyte Chodat was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was the leading expert on Polygalaceae in his time, and who devised a method of culturing freshwater algae as well as the algal component of lichens. |
1848 - 1920 
Frank Collins Frank Shipley Collins was an American was botanist and phycologist who specialized in marine algae, especially of the western Atlantic. |
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1881 - 1949 
Joseph Cushman Josephy A. Cushman was an American phycologist, paleontologist and foraminiferologist who was director of the Boston Natural History Museum. He founded the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research in 1923. |
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. |
1871 - 1957
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Bradley Davis Bradley Moore Davis>/b> was an American botanist, phycologist and plant morphologist who served on the faculty of University of Chicago and later University of Pennsylvania. |
1794 - 1843
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Jean-Marie Despreaux Jean-Marie Despreaux was a French physician and cryptogamic botanist who explored Greece and the Canary Islands, among other places, settling in Mexico to practice medicine where he continued botanical pursuits. |
1900 - 1970 
Carola Dickinson Carola Dickinson was a British phycologist working at the Kew Herbarium and author of British Seaweeds. |
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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. |
1844 - 1919 
William Farlow William G. Farlow was an American mycologist and phycologist on the faculty of Harvard University, regarded as the first cryptogamic botanist in the United States. |
1919 - 2005 
Gordon Fogg Gordon Elliott Fogg was an English phycologist and marine biologist who studied nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria and the ecophysiology of phytoplankton. |
1879 - 1954 
Felix Fritsch Felix Eugen Fritsch was an English phycologist on the faculty of University of London, who published The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae in 1935. |
1915 - 2000 
Johannes Gerloff Johannes Gerloff was a German phycologist. He was founder of Nova Hedwigia and was Curator of Algae at the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem. |
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1855 - 1912 
Henry Groves Henry Groves was an English botanist who, with his younger brother James, studied the Characeae of England and Scotland. |
1858 - 1933
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James Groves James Groves, brother of and collaborator with Henry Groves, was an English botanist and phycologist who was the leading authority on the algal family Characeae in Great Britain. |
1811 - 1866 
William Harvey William Henry Harvey was an Irish phycologist, floristician and bryologist who spent time in South Africa. |
1874 - 1943 
Tracy Hazen Tracy Elliot Hazen was an American phycologist and freshwater plant specialist. |
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Walter R. Herndon Walter R. Herndon was an American phycologist and algal taxonomist who was a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
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1851 - 1923 
Romyn Hitchcock Romyn Hitchcock was a member of the first class of Cornell University and was a chemist, ethnologist, journal editor, and botanist. |
1897 - 1988
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George J. Hollenberg George J. Hollenberg was an American marine phycologist who specialized in red algae, and co-authored Marine Algae of California (1976) with Isabella Abbott. |
1843 - 1930 
Edward Holmes Edward Morell Holmes was a British phycologist and lecturer in materia medica. He also had interests in bryology and lichenology and collected extensively. |
1918 - 1991
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Arland Hotchkiss Arland Hotchkiss was an American professor of botany at the University of Louisville who earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Cornell University. Hotchkiss's Ph.D. thesis, Studies in the algae of Bergen Swamp, New York, was completed in 1949, under the direction of Walter C. Muenscher. |
1867 - 1968 
Marshall Howe Marshall Avery Howe was an American hepaticologist, phycologist and plant collector who was associated with the New York Botanical Garden for 35 years. |
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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 |
1813 - 1856 
Frederik Liebmann Frederik Michael Liebmann was a Danish botanist and phycologist who collected in Mexico and the Caribbean and who described nearly 100 Mexican ferns. |
1904 - 1988 
Irene Manton Irene Manton was an English botanist who studied fern reproduction and algal cytology using ultraviolet and electron microscopy. |
1871 - 1956 
George Moore George Thomas Moore was an American phycologist who served as director of the Missouri Botanical Garden for several decades. |
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). |
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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. |
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). |
1899 - 1988 
Gerald Prescott Gerald Prescott was an American phycologist and botanist who also joined the Cinchona Missions in Ecuador to source quinine during WWII. |
1806 - 1881 
Gottlob Rabenhorst Ludwig Rabenhorst was a German mycologist, phycologist and cryptogamic botanist who published (1844-1853) Deutschlands Kryptogamen-Flora oder Handbuch zur Bestimmung der kryptogamischen Gewaechse Deutschlands, der Schweiz, des Lombardisch-Venetianischen Koenigreich und Istriens. |
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. |
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1885 - 1976 
Jacob Schramm Jacob "Jack" Schramm was a professor of botany at Cornell University from 1914-1925, but left to serve as Editor in Chief of Biological Abstracts until 1937, when he became professor at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Morris Arboretum. |
1924 - 2015 
George Schumacher George John Schumacher was an American freshwater phycologist who obtained his Ph.D. at Cornell University and later taught at Harpur College (now Binghamton University, State University of New York). |
1922 - 2014 
Paul C. Silva Paul C. Silva was a phycologist and marine biologist best known as an expert on the algal genus Codium, and as creator of Index Nominum Algarum. He served as curator of algae at the Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley. |
1913 - 1968 
James Sinclair James Sinclair was a Scottish schoolteacher, botanist, phycologist, and bryologist who explored India and Pakistan after WWII, and eventually became Curator of the Herbarium, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. |
1885 - 1959 
Gilbert Smith Gilbert Morgan Smith was an American phycologist. He worked on a variety of freshwater and marine algae, particularly in the western United States. |
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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. |
1924 - 1998 
Richard C. Starr Richard Starr was an American phycologist who studied reproduction in algae and maintained the UTEX culture collection of algae. |
1934 - 2012 
Eugene Stoermer Eugene F. Stoermer was an American phycologist on the faculty of University of Michigan. His specialty was the study of freshwater diatoms. In the early 1980s Stoermer coined the term "Anthropocene" as a proposed geologic epoch. |
1871 - 1955 
Arthur Tansley Sir Arthur Tansley was an English plant ecologist and systematist, who in 1935 introduced the concept of ecosystems into biology (though the word "ecosystem" was actually coined by Arthur Roy Clapham). |
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. |
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1875 - 1960 
Edgar Transeau Edgar N. Transeau was an American phycologist and bog ecologist on the faculty of Ohio State University. |
1858 - 1924 
Johan Wille Nordal Wille was a Norwegian botanist best known for having founded the laboratory at the University Botanical Garden and co-founding the Natural History Museum at the Royal Frederick University (today University of Oslo). |
1839 - 1914 
Veit Wittrock Veit Brecher Wittrock was a Swedish phycologist and educator whose algal collections are now housed at the British Museum. |
1817 - 1893 
Francis Wolle Francis Wolle was an American phycologist, inventor, and priest in the Moravian Church. His 1851 invention of a paper bag-making machine was the first of its kind. |