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This gaggle includes faculty, students, staff and others associated with Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, USA) in various ways. We have also included people who are connected through donations of herbaria, and some amateurs who were working with faculty at Cornell. The total number of biographies in this group illustrate the impact of Cornell on botany. [see also the Bailey Hortorium] |
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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. |
1926 - 2014 
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Robinson Abbott Robinson Shewell Abbott was an American biologist and professor at Smith College, who earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1956. |
1914 - 2004 
Hilda Aboy Hilda Elena Aboy was an American botanist who studied under Arthur J. Eames at Cornell University. |
1889 - 1981 
Charles Alexander Charles Paul Alexander was an American aquatic entomologist and educator who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, known for his expertise in the family Tipulidae (craneflies). |
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Mabel Allen Mabel Allen was an American collector of New York State plants, and herbarium assistant at Cornell university. |
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1899 - 1967
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Leland Allen Leland Norcross Allen was an American seed analyst who earned his Master's degree at Cornell University. He devised novel methods for seed quality assurance. |
1907 - 1993 
Raymond Allen Raymond Clayton Allen was an American horticulturalist and rose expert who obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and the first director of the Kingwood Center Gardens in Mansfield, Ohio. |
1885 - 1964 
Arthur Allen Arthur Allen was an American ornithologist and the founder, in 1915, of the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University. |
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. |
1878 - 1961 
Albert Andrews A. Leroy Andrews was an American linguist and bryologist on the faculty of Cornell University, and editor of The Bryologist. |
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1856 - 1919
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George Arnold George Arnold was a Cornell-educated horticulturalist associated with the seed farm and trial grounds at James Vick's Sons in Spencerport, New York. |
1901 - 1977 
Chester Arnold Chester Arthur Arnold was an American paleobotanist who earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Cornell University, where he studied with Loren Petry and specialized in Pennsylvanian and Devonian plant fossils. He was a professor and curator of the paleobotanical collection at the University of Michigan. |
1850 - 1942 
Joseph Arthur Joseph Charles Arthur was an American mycologist and plant pathologist with expertise in the rust fungi. Arthur received the first D.Sc. ever granted by Cornell University. |
1889 - 1957 
Ernst Artschwager Ernst Artschwager was a German-American botanist and plant anatomist who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1918. |
1916 - 2006
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George Asai George N. Asai was the American-born son of Japanese immigrants to the United States, who completed his B.S. and Ph.D. in Horticulture at Cornell University and worked for many years as a gardener for the New York City Housing Authority. |
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1872 - 1932 
William Ashe William Willard Ashe was an American forester and botanist who earned his M.S. at Cornell University, and who named hundreds of new plant species in his lifetime. |
1854 - 1918 
George Atkinson George F. Atkinson was an American mycologist and plant pathologist at Cornell University whose students included K.M. Wiegand, S.H. Burnham, and E.J. Durand. |
1854 - 1928 
Charles Atwood Charles Atwood, American physician and botanist, earned a B.S. in botany from Cornell University. He pursued a career as a physician while maintaining his interest in botany, and through his association with the Finger Lakes State Park Commission helped to establish the Fillmore Glen State Park in Moravia, New York. |
1858 - 1954 
Liberty Bailey Liberty Hyde Bailey was a highly prolific horticulturalist, taxonomist, and educator who established the first horticultural department in the U.S. at Michigan Agricultural College in 1883. He established and became the first dean of the State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, in 1904. |
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. |
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1913 - 1998 
Harlan Banks Harlan Banks was a paleobotanist and Cornell University professor who transformed our understanding of early land plants through his meticulous and methodical research techniques. |
1919 - 1993 
Roger Barbour Roger William Barbour was an American naturalist, zoologist, educator, and photographer on the faculty of University of Kentucky who earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Cornell University, under the direction of noted Cornell naturalists Arthur Allen, A.H. Wright, and W.J. Hamilton, Jr. |
1879 - 1962 
Mortier Barrus Mortier Franklin Barrus was an American plant pathologist and educator who became the first Extension Plant Pathologist in the U.S., at Cornell University. |
1934 - 2019 
David Bates David M. Bates was a plant systematist, economic botanist and conservationist, and a professor and director of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University. |
1860 - 1922 
Spencer Beach Spencer A. Beach was an American fruit breeder and horticulturist, best known as the developer of the Cortland apple while at the Agricultural Experiment station at Geneva, NY. |
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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. |
1903 - 1989 
George Beadle George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist who earned his doctorate from Cornell University and was co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology for discovery of the role of genes in intracellular processes. |
1881 - 1977 
Ralph Bean Ralph Carleton Bean was an American schoolteacher and botanist who co-collected with many well-known botanists, mainly associated with Harvard University, but also Cornell University, where he participated in a botany summer program in 1932. |
1882 - 1955 
Albert Bechtel Albert Reiff Bechtel was an American botanist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and later became Professor and Head of the Botany Department at Wabash College in Indiana. |
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. |
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1903 - 1990 
Ethel C. Belk Ethel Belk was a professor of botany at Miami University, Ohio, when she left to pursue a Ph.D. at Cornell University. |
1944 - 2001 
Joy Belsky Joy Belsky was an American plant ecologist and conservationist, who fought to keep grazing cattle off public lands. |
1888 - 1970 
Walter Benner Walter Benner was an American educator and botanist in Pennsylvania who taught in public schools and became a research assistant at the Academy of Natural Sciences. |
1832 - 1904
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James Bennett James Lawrence Bennett was an American jeweler, botanist, and bryologist whose herbarium of 13,000 specimens was deposited at his alma mater, Brown University. |
1871 - 1931 
Alwin Berger Alwin Berger was a German gardener turned botanist who was associated with the New York state Experiment station in Geneva, New York for three years, but was known internationally for his publications on the Cactaceae. |
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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. |
1916 - 2006 
Arthur Bing Arthur Bing was an American horticulturist, educator, and plant physiologist who worked on solving weed control problems in cultivation of ornamentals, and was regarded as a pioneer in the use of herbicides. |
1910 - 1976 
Henry Blaser Henry Weston Blaser was an American botanist and plant anatomist with a doctorate from Cornell University, who joined the faculty at University of Washington, and who worked on the family Cyperaceae. |
1888 - 1964 
Hugo Blomquist Hugo Blomquist was a Swedish-born American pteridologist, bryologist and general plant taxonomist. He was a professor at Duke University and spent a sabbatic year at Cornell University, where he became acquainted with the sphagnum expert, A. Leroy Andrews. |
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. |
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1917 - 
Frank Boyle Frank Paul Boyle was a plant scientist with a Ph.D. from Cornell University who studied preservation and storage of plant food products. |
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. |
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. |
1908 - 1976
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James Brooks James Stanley Brooks was an American botanist and plant geneticist on the faculty of Oklahoma State University for most of his professional career. |
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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1876 - 1962
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Harry Brown Harry Bates Brown was an American agricultural scientist and educator who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He is perhaps best known for developing several valuable cotton varieties. |
1887 - 1951
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Harry Brown Harry Philip Brown was an American botanist, dendrologist, wood anatomist, and educator, some of whose earliest plant collections were deposited at Cornell University (BH). |
1905 - 1975 
Murray Buell Murray Fife Buell was an American plant ecologist and palynologist who conducted groundbreaking studies of land-management impacts on ecosystems. |
1927 - 2015 
George Bunting George S. Bunting was an American plant taxonomist who specialized in Venezuelan plant taxa, particularly aroids. |
1919 - 2006 
Charles Burch Charles Burch was an American plant morphologist, cytologist, and educator who earned his doctorate at Cornell University. |
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1903 - 1972 
Paul Burkholder Paul Burkholder was an American botanist and pharmacognosist noted as the discoverer of the broad-spectrum antibiotic chloramphenicol, as well as the anti-leukemia drug azaserine, and as the discoverer of how to administer vitamin B12 orally. |
1870 - 1943 
Stewart Burnham Stewart Henry Burnham donated his herbarium of 75,000 specimens, some of which formed the basis of his Flora of the Town of Southold, Long Island and Gardiner's Island to Cornell University, was the Assistant New York State Botanist under Charles S. Peck from 1903-1913, and was the Assistant Curator at the Cornell Herbarium for 20 years. |
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. |
1893 - 1974 
Hempstead Castle Hempstead Castle was an American bryologist and lichenologist, and professor at Yale University. |
1932 - 2005 
Philip Caswell Philip Preston Caswell was an American botanist who is known for having discovered new and rare plants in Alaska and the Yukon. |
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1898 - 
Ho-Tseng Chang Ho-Tseng Chang was a Chinese botanist who earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University and contributed to the monographic series Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae. |
1918 - 2021 
Sherret Chase Sherret Spaulding Chase was an American cytogeneticist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and worked on maize and other cereal grains. |
1831 - 1913 
John White Jr. Chickering John White Chickering, Jr. was a teacher and clergyman, who lived in Ovid New York and was mentioned in the Cayuga Flora. He later published accounts of botanizing in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia in 1873, and on Roan Mountain, North Carolina in 1880 and was noted by W.R. Dudley as a plant collector in the Cayuga Lake Basin. |
1886 - 1967 
Charles Chupp Charles Chupp was an American plant pathologist and professor at Cornell University, who specialized in problems of plant production in New York State. |
1888 - 1962 
Hettie Chute Hettie Morse Chute was a Canadian educator and botanist on the faculty of Rutgers University. |
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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. |
1914 - 2005 
Robert Clark Robert B. Clark was an American landscape architect and taxonomist of cultivated plants. He served as curator of the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium, Cornell University (BH) from 1962-1964, and as a landscape architect his most lasting contribution (1963) may be the design of the arboretum in Holmdel Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey. |
1911 - 1981 
Robert Clausen Robert T. Clausen was an American plant taxonomist, educator, and herbarium curator at Cornell University (BH), who specialized in the Crassulaceae. |
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. |
1894 - 1987
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Harold Clum Harold Clum was an American plant physiologist who earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1924. Clum was a professor at Hunter College for most of his career, retiring in 1962. He was an active member of the Torrey Botanical Club. |
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1911 - 2008
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Julius Cohn Julius Cohn was an American botanist who earned his M.S. in biology at Cornell University with Karl M. Wiegand in 1941. He later became an assistant professor at Mohawk Valley Community College. |
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. |
1849 - 1931 
John Comstock John Henry Comstock was an American entomologist who came to Cornell University in the early days of the institution and became a leader in the field and a beloved teacher. |
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. |
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1913 - 1998 
John Cornman John F. Cornman was an American botanist and educator at Cornell University, considered a pioneer in the science of turfgrass management. |
1867 - 1967 
Frederick Coville Frederick Vernon Coville was an American botanist and agriculturist. A Cornell University graduate, he was an expert in American Ribes and Juncaceae, and did groundbreaking work in blueberry cultivation leading to the fruit's great commercial success. |
1912 - 1959
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Leland Cox Leland G. Cox was a researcher in the fruit-packing industry who received his doctorate from Cornell University. |
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. |
1909 - 2004 
Harriet Creighton Harriet Creighton was an American cytologist and geneticist who, with Barbara McClintock at Cornell University, determined that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic material, producing heritable traits. |
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1925 - 2021 
James Cruise James E. Cruise was a Canadian botanist who earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at Cornell University, and was employed as professor at University of Toronto and director of the Royal Ontario Museum. He specialized in the Asteraceae and Ericaceae. |
1856 - 1939 
Fred Curtice F. Cooper Curtice was an American veterinarian, medical doctor, and parasitologist who established that ticks can be vectors of animal and human disease. |
1888 - 1949 
Otis Curtis Otis Freeman Curtis was an American plant physiologist, and the first professor of that name on the faculty of Cornell University, |
1878 - 1968 
Ralph Curtis Ralph Wright Curtis was a Cornell University student and later professor of landscape architecture who helped establish the Cornell Arboretum. |
1915 - 1988
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Otis Freeman Jr. Curtis Otis "Ote" Freeman Curtis, Jr. was a Cornell University Ph.D. graduate and pomological researcher who studied herbicidal and insecticidal control methods. |
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1917 - 1962 
Victor Macomber Jr. Cutter Victor Cutter Jr. was an American mycologist who earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University under the advisement of Lester Sharp, and is known for his studies on cedar rust, Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae. He was the spouse of botanist Lois Jotter. |
1899 - 1983 
George Darrow George M. Dawson was an American horticulturist and pomologist who received his A.M. degree in horticulture from Cornell University in 1911. Within two years he formed a partnership with (future) US Senator from Vermont George D. Aiken and created the nursery firm Darrow & Aiken. From 1917 he worked for USDA. His specialty was small fruits, especially strawberries. He is credited with "rescuing" the original cultivated boysenberry plants from an overgrown field in California and making them available for the horticultural trade. |
1864 - 1948 
Harry DeForest Harry P. DeForest, aka Henry P. DeForest, was an American physician and police surgeon who developed and implemented the first use of fingerprint identification in the United States. While an undergraduate at Cornell University, he made many plant collections (deposited at Cornell University (BH)). |
1923 - 2004
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Glenn DeLong Glenn Robert DeLong was an American educator and botanist who earned a master's degree in botany at Cornell University under Robert T. Clausen. |
1895 - 1966 
Milislav Demerec Milislav Demerec was a Croatian-American geneticist who earned his PhD at Cornell University. He worked on maize genetics and on Drosophila, and directed what would become the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is credited with hiring two future Nobel Prize winners, Barbara McClintock and Nobel Hershey. |
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1927 - 2019 
Gordon DeWolf Gordon P. DeWolf was an American plant taxonomist, horticultural taxonomist, and educator who for many years coordinated the Horticulture program at Massachusetts Bay Community College. |
1849 - 1911 
William Dudley William Russel Dudley was an American botanist and one of Cornell University's earliest students, as well as a highly influential professor at Cornell who published the first catalogue of the region's wild plants, Cayuga Flora, in 1886. |
1872 - 1956 
Benjamin Duggar Benjamin M. Duggar was an American plant physiologist and mycologist who earned his doctorate at Cornell University, and eventually joined the faculty. He is credited with the discovery of the antibiotic chlortetracycline (Aureomycin), derived from soil fungi. |
1893 - 1969
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Vining Dunlap Vining Campbell Dunlap was an economic botanist and plant pathologist most widely known for his work with the United Fruit Company carrying out research on banana crops in Central America. |
1870 - 1922 
Elias Durand Elias J. Durand was an American mycologist, botanist and educator who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota. |
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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. |
1895 - 1972 
James Edwards James Leland "Lee" Edwards was an American civil engineer with connections to many of the great biologists of his day, including ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson and botanist R.T. Clausen. Edwards co-authored Ferns of New Jersey with M.A. Chrysler of Rutgers University in 1947. |
1915 - 1981 
John Einset John Einset was a cytogeneticist and pomologist specializing in grapes and apples who earned both his bachelor's and Ph.D. from Cornell, later heading its Department of Pomology for nearly 20 years. |
1873 - 1947 
Rollins Emerson Rollins A. Emerson was an American plant breeder and geneticist on the faculty of Cornell University, where he established that institution as a center for maize genetics. |
1919 - 2000 
Mary Fagley Mary Louise Fagley was an American zoologist and avid birder, at one time president of the Colorado Bird Club. |
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1925 - 2012 
David Fairbrothers David Fairbrothers was an American plant systematist, educator and conservationist who earned his Ph.D from Cornell University and was a pioneer in chemotaxonomy. |
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. |
1851 - 1923 
Bernhard Fernow Bernhard E. Fernow, a Prussian emigre to the United States, was the first professional forester in the United States, who briefly served as Dean of the School of Forestry at Cornell University, and was a leader in forestry education in North America. |
1911 - 1993 
Dorothy Fisher Dorothy Fisher was an American botanist and educator, a professor at Marshall University. |
1886 - 1949 
Harry Fitzpatrick Harry Fitzpatrick was an American mycologist who completed undergraduate and graduate degrees at Cornell University and became Associate Professor of the new Department of Plant Pathology in 1913. He made notable contributions to the field, including monographs on Coryneliaceae and Nitschkiaceae, and authored the textbook The Lower Fungi: Phycomycetes. |
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1875 - 1971 
Stevenson Fletcher Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher, who earned his master's and doctorate degrees from Cornell University, was an author and educator of agriculture and horticulture who held several administrative positions at multiple institutions. |
1881 - 1969 
Howard B. Frost Howard Frost was a plant breeder who earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University and was an authority on Citrus. Frost is credited with developing lemon and orange varieties best suited for the California industry. |
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. |
1874 - 1967 
Charles Furlong Charles Wellington Furlong was an American explorer, artist, photographer, and professor at Cornell University who traveled widely and collected botanical specimens, especially in Patagonia. |
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. |
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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. |
1872 - 1943 
Charles Gager C. Stuart Gager was an American botanist and the first director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, guiding that institution through 30 years of growth with an emphasis on outreach and public education. Previously, Gager had taught biology and botany at all levels, and earned a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1902. |
1863 - 1938 
Beverly Galloway Beverly Galloway was a plant pathologist who spent most of his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, though served briefly as Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. |
1906 - 1982 
Roger Gauthier Roger Gauthier was an American-Canadian professor of botany at the Botanical Institute of the University of Montreal when he completed a M.S. at Cornell University studying floral morphology with Arthur J. Eames. |
1854 - 1943 
William Gurley William Frank Eugene Gurley was an American geologist and paleontologist who described numerous new species. He attended Cornell University for two years in the "Optional Course" which helped prepare him for his career without a degree. |
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1940 - 2011
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Alan J. Hahn Alan J. Hahn was an American professor of public policy and management at the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University. He was also an accomplished photographer, and his collection of botanical photographic slides was deposited at the Bailey Hortorium Herbarium (BH), Cornell University. |
1927 - 2018 
Ivan Hall Ivan Hall studied the genus Vaccinium to earn a Cornell Ph.D. in 1953 and went on to a career at the Kentville Research Station in western Nova Scotia, contributing significantly to the blueberry and cranberry industries in North America and throughout the world. |
1913 - 1989
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Thomas Francis Jr. Hall Thomas Francis Hall, Jr. was an American botanist who earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was a researcher with the Tennessee Valley Authority in the years leading up to earning his doctorate, but little more is known about him subsequent to that. |
1889 - 1949 
Anna Hancy Anna Jane Hancy was an American botanist, chemist, and educator on the faculty at Asheville-Biltmore Colllege, North Carolina. |
1875 - 1932
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Heinrich Hasselbring Heinrich Hasselbring was an American mycologist, plant pathologist, and later plant physiologist for the USDA who studied at Cornell University for his undergraduate degree. |
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1853 - 1942 
Louis Henderson Louis F. Henderson graduated from Cornell University and became one of the first botany professors at the University of Idaho and an expert on the northwestern United States flora. |
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. |
1891 - 1956
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Edwin Honey Edwin Earle Honey was a Cornell University graduate of plant pathology who described the fungal species Monilinia azaleae, which affects members of the Rosaceae and Ericaceae families. Some of his Wisconsin plant collections are deposited at Cornell University (BH). |
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. |
1863 - 1930 
David Hoy David Fletcher Hoy was an American botanist and plant collector of New York State, and Registrar of Admissions at his alma mater, Cornell University. |
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1909 -
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Kenneth Hunt Kenneth Whitten Hunt was an American plant anatomist and conservationist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and who was on the faculty of the College of Charleston from 1937-1947 and subsequently Antioch College. His personal herbarium was deposited at the Charleston Museum Herbarium (CHARL). |
1959 - 2023 
David Hunt David M. Hunt was a plant systematist and conservationist who specialized in the oak genus Quercus. A native of Framingham, Massachusetts, he earned his Bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1981 and Ph.D. at University of Georgia in 1990. He settled in Grafton, New York, where he was a leading authority on the surrounding Rensselaer Plateau, serving to protect rare plants and habitats, and worked as an ecologist for The Nature Conservancy and New York Natural Heritage Program for many years. |
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. |
1921 - 2008 
Peter Hyypio Peter Hyypio was an American botanist, caricologist, and curator at the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. |
1924 - 2014 
John Ingram John Ingram was an American plant taxonomist who worked on Euphorbiaceae, Ericaceae and horticultural plants. He contributed greatly to Hortus Third while a faculty member in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University |
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1918 - 2000 
Duane Isely Duane Isley was an American plant taxonomist, seed technologist, weed specialist and educator who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and joined the faculty at Iowa State University. Much of his work focused on members of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) |
1921 - 2010 
Everett Jameson Everett Jameson earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Zoology from Cornell University, was a professor at University of California Davis and an authority on chiggers. |
1851 - 1931 
David Jordan David Starr Jordan, a member of the first graduating class of Cornell University, was a well-regarded American ichthyologist who became the first president of Stanford University and was a proponent of the eugenics movement in the early 20th Century. Jordan's position on eugenics mostly related to his belief that war caused a "reversal" in natural selection and favored survival of weaker elements in society. |
1874 - 1930 
Patrick Kennedy Patrick Beveridge Kennedy was a Scottish-American agronomist who earned his doctorate at Cornell Unversity and who introduced new forage plants to improve the rangelands of California while at the University of California Experiment Station, Berkeley. |
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. |
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1858 - 1934 
Frederick Kilborne Frederick L. Kilborne was an animal parasitologist and pathologist who, alongside two fellow Cornell University alumni, proved that Texas cattle fever was caused by a tick-borne parasitic protozoan, the first time an infectious disease was shown to be transmitted by an arthropod. |
1925 - 2016 
Richard P. Korf Richard Korf was a world-renowned American mycologist and taxonomist on the faculty of Cornell University. His area of greatest expertise was in the Discomycetes, and he was co-founder of the journal Mycotaxon. |
1919 - 1993 
Arnold Krochmal Arnold Krochmal earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University and published numerous books and articles on medicinal and economically useful plants. |
1864 - 1947 
William Langworthy William F. Langworthy was a professor of Biology at Colgate University. Some of his Hamilton Co., NY, plant collections are deposited at Cornell University (BH), where he studied for a short time. |
1881 - 1979
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Roy Latham Roy Latham was an American lichenologist with additional broad interests in natural history, botany and zoology and was described as "one of Long Island's greatest naturalists..." Some 100,000 of his collections of plants, algae, and fungi were deposited with Cornell University. |
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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. |
1910 - 1978 
George Lawrence George H.M. Lawrence was an American botanist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and became the founding director of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University. |
1919 - 2009 
Aldo Leopold Carl Leopold was a plant physiologist and conservationist who studied the plant hormone auxin and whose research on soybeans and protein desiccation led to the development of inhalable insulin. |
1915 - 1991
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Milton Lessler Milton A. Lessler, who received his B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University, was an American cytologist whose research was centered around cell physiology, especially the effects of environmental toxins and radiation. |
1893 - 1974 
Harrison Lewis Harrison Flint was an ornithologist and wildlife manager who earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University under the direction of Arthur Allen, and subsequently held various positions with the Canadian government, including Federal Migratory Bird Officer for Quebec and Ontario from 1920-1944, and was the first Director of the Canadian Wildlife Service. |
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1907 - 1999 
Alton Lindsey Al Lindsey was a professor of ecology at Purdue University who had interrupted his graduate studies in botany at Cornell University to serve as vertebrate biologist on an expedition to the Antarctic with Admiral Richard Byrd. After finishing his degree, he spent subsequent summers as a ranger at Glacier National Park and at Mount Rainier, experiences which are said to have influenced his interest in vegetation and landscape ecology. |
1859 - 1926 
Curtis Lloyd Curtis Gates Lloyd was an American mycologist who described more than one thousand fungi, and who co-founded (with his brothers Nelson and John) the Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati. Lloyd donated the land comprising McLean Bogs in Dryden, N.Y., now a National Natural Landmark managed by Cornell Botanic Gardens, to Cornell University in 1930. |
1914 - 2008 
Sven Loman Sven Loman was an American horticulturist who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in horticulture in 1939, and was a gardener at the George Junior Republic in Dryden, New York, for 41 years. |
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. |
1915 - 1981
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Gabriel Mandels Gabriel Raphael Mandels was an American mycologist who studied with Lewis Knudson at Cornell University. |
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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). |
1861 - 1928 
Clarence Mathews Clarence Wentworth Mathews was an American pomologist, horticulturist and educator who graduated from Cornell University in 1891 and became Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. |
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. |
1855 - 1916
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William McKay William L. McKay was an American horticulturist and nursery operator, who received his bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1878. He went on to receive a law degree from University of Michigan in 1880. With brother-in-law Everett LeVant Van Dusen, McKay took over the Curtis L. Van Dusen Nursery Co. in Geneva, NY, upon the death of Curtis L. Van Dusen. He continued with the business until his sudden death while working in the fields in 1916. At that time his sons Cecil C. McKay and Willard J. McKay took the helm. |
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. |
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1892 - 1946 
Chester Menke Chester Hume Menke was an American biologist who received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1917 under the guidance of Willard W. Rowlee. Little else is known about him. |
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. |
1854 - 1923 
Charles Millspaugh Charles Millspaugh was an American botanist, and a nephew of Ezra Cornell. He was the first curator of botany at the Field Museum in Chicago and built the botanical collection many-fold, incorporating specimens from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and later his own collections from around the world. |
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. |
1879 - 1946 
Truman Moon Truman Jesse Moon, a creationist and eugenicist, was a 1903 graduate of Cornell University who taught high school in Middletown, New York and authored the highly successful Biology for Beginners in 1921. |
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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. |
1859 - 1931 
Veranus Moore Veranus Alva Moore was an American pathologist, bacteriologist, and public health advocate who was a professor in, and eventually Dean of, the Veterinary College at Cornell University. |
1916 - 2010 
Reid Moran Reid Moran was an American botanist who became the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum, and a world authority on the succulent family Crassulaceae. Moran also collected extensively on Guadalupe Island and Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. |
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. |
1928 - 2005
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Robert Mower Robert G. Mower was an American landscape horticulturist and turfgrass plant pathologist who served on the faculty of the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, Cornell University, and who conducted research with Cornell's Cooperative Extension programs. |
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1933 - 2016 
Dan Nicolson Dan H. Nicolson was an American plant taxonomist, floristician, and monographer of the family Araceae. He earned his doctorate at Cornell University and worked primarily for the Smithsonian Institution, collecting in many areas of the world. |
1947 - 2018
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Michael Orlov Michael Orlov was an American entomologist who earned his doctorate at University of Sussex. |
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. |
1888 - 1970 
Ephraim Palmer E.L. Palmer was an American botanist, conservationist, and educator who served on the faculty of Cornell University and edited several environmental periodicals, including the Cornell Rural School Leaflet. |
1856 - 1886
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Otis Pearce Otis Ezra Pearce was an American botanist and paleontologist who earned his B.S. at Cornell University and died shortly after graduating. His herbarium of 600 specimens is deposited at the Smithsonian Institution. |
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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 |
1895 - 1961 
Ruth Petry Ruth Alice Petry was an assistant in botany at Cornell University and sister of Cornell botany professor Loren Petry. |
1836 - 1896 
Albert Prentiss A.N. Prentiss was an American botanist and among the first faculty of Cornell University, hired at its opening in 1868 as head of the Botanical Department. |
1860 - 1916 
Charles Prosser Charles S. Prosser was an American geologist and paleobotanist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He was a founding Fellow of the Geological Society of America. |
1905 - 1988 
Maynard Quimby Maynard Quimby was an American pharmacologist and botanist who earned his doctorate at Cornell University, known for his pharmacological research in Cannabis. |
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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). |
1883 - 1955 
Donald Reddick Donald Reddick was an American plant pathologist on the faculty of Cornell University who, through hybridization, bred late blight resistant potatoes. |
1903 - 1991 
Marcus Rhoades Marcus M. Rhoades was an American cytogeneticist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and whose pioneering work with maize genetics included the first documentation of "meiotic drive" during meiosis. |
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1947 - 1996 
David Rindos David Rindos was a Cornell educated social scientist, botanist and anthropologist whose book, The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective was an important contribution to the field of agricultural history. Rindos was denied tenure and dismissed from the University of Western Australia in 1993, when he reported to the administration instances of favoritism and sexual impropriety among the UWA faculty. |
1930 - 2024 
Richard Robinson Richard W. Robinson was a Cornell University professor of plant breeding at the NY State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY. His specialty was with tomatoes, though he also worked on squash, cucumbers, lettuce and eggplants, introducing several new vegetable varieties to the market. |
1918 - 2001 
Clark Rogerson Carl Rogerson was a mycologist who earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1950 under the guidance of Harry Fitzpatrick and Donald Welch, and is best known for his work with Hypomyces fungi. |
1936 - 2013 
Richard Root Dick Root was an ecologist, entomologist and professor at Cornell University who originated the concept of ecological guilds through his doctoral work and was noted for his studies of the plant-insect interactions of goldenrod. |
1861 - 1923 
Willard Rowlee W.W. Rowlee was an American plant taxonomist and dendrologist. He received both his B.L. and Sc.D. at Cornell, continuing to teach and work there until his death in 1923. He was particularly interested in North American willows. |
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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). |
1921 - 2012 
Rudolf Schuster Rudolph "Rudy" Schuster, a German-American entomologist (M.S. from Cornell University) and highly productive hepaticologist, was the author of the six-volume The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America, east of the hundredth meridian. An avid collector worldwide, his personal herbarium is now at the Field Museum in Chicago. |
1887 - 1961 
Lester Sharp Lester W. Sharp was a pioneering American cytogeneticist and longtime professor at Cornell University, who taught the one of the first courses in cytology in an American university, authored two textbooks and numerous publications in that rapidly developing field and was known for his skill in teaching, his generosity toward students, and his keen sense of humor. |
1924 - 2016 
Thomas Sheehan Thomas John Sheehan was an American orchidologist and orchid breeder who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and who published several books on orchids. He was the spouse of the botanical illustrator Marion Elizabeth Ruff. |
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1915 - 1978 
Stanley Smith Stanley J. Smith was the Curator of Botany at the New York State Museum in Albany from 1947 to 1978. He attended Cornell University for his undergraduate and graduate studies, earning his M.S. under the direction of Karl M. Wiegand. |
1906 - 1980
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Robert Snell Robert Sinclair Snell was an American plant morphologist and crop scientist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and afterwards joined the faculty of Rutgers University. |
1868 - 1946 
Fred Stewart Fred Carleton Stewart was a mycologist and plant pathologist on the faculty of Cornell University. He had previously worked with the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva as well as Jamaica, NY. He is credited with discovering that what would be known as Stewart's Wilt in corn was caused by the bacterium Pantoea stewartii. |
1868 - 1950 
Charles Stuart Charles H. Stuart, son of nurseryman Charles W. Stuart, was an industrialist and Cornell chemistry alum. He worked at, and eventually became the head of, his father's nursery enterprise. In 1903 he founded C.H. Stuart & Co., a chemical company specializing in personal care products such as shaving cream, toothpaste, and perfumes. |
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. |
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1913 - 1998
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Charles Arthur Jr. Taylor Charles A. Taylor, Jr. was an American plant collector and herbarium curator (South Dakota State University) who earned his master's degree at Cornell University, and for whom the C.A. Taylor Herbarium at SDSU is named. |
1920 - 2015 
Robert Thorne Robert Thorne was an internationally renowned American botanist who earned his doctorate at Cornell University and devised the "Thorne System" of plant classification. He added over 60,000 specimens to the herbarium of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden where he was curator for nearly 30 years. |
1863 - 1946
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Edward Townsend Edward C. Townsend was an American plant collector and schoolteacher whose herbarium specimens may be found at Cornell University (BH) and Washington State University (WS), and elsewhere. A notable collection he made in the 1890s was of the now-extinct legume Orbexilum macrophyllum in western North Carolina. |
1916 - 1991 
Harold Trapido Harold Trapido was an American zoologist educated at Cornell University, who accompanied Robert Clausen on expeditions to the Gaspe Peninsula and the American southwest, worked for state departments of conservation in both New York and Vermont, and became an expert in the epidemiology of tropical diseases, including malaria. |
1857 - 1945 
William Trelease William Trelease was a taxonomist and educator, and the first director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, who is said to have named and described over 2,500 plant taxa. |
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1877 - 1978 
Thomas Turner Thomas W. Turner was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Botany, which he earned from Cornell University in 1921, and the first secretary of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). |
1882 - 1951 
James Turner James Arthur Turner was an American educator and botanist who earned his M.S. at Cornell University and developed science curricula for public schools. |
1919 - 2017 
Natalie Uhl Natalie Whitford Uhl was an American botanist, palm systematist, and professor at Cornell University. |
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. |
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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1873 - 1953 
Hermann von Schrenk Hermann von Schrenk was an American plant pathologist and timber preservationist whose highly effective work with creosote in wood preservation is still used to some extent today despite being a known carcinogen. |
1892 - 1954 
Frank Wann Frank Burkett Wann was an American plant pathologist with a doctorate from Cornell University, an early investigator of the effects of air pollution on crop plants. |
1928 - 2016 
Daniel Ward Daniel B. Ward was an American plant taxonomist, educator and conservationist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University and served on the faculty of University of Florida. |
1870 - 1927 
Stuart Weller Stuart Weller was an American paleontologist whose alma mater was Cornell University. With a Ph.D. from Yale University, Weller joined the faculty of University of Chicago. His research focus was on Mississippian strata, especially coal fossils. |
1914 - 2007
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Arnold Wellwood Arnold Wellwood was a Canadian plant geneticist who earned his Ph.D. under L.F. Randolph at Cornell University. He developed a high-yield maize during a research stint in Nigeria, and served on the faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. |
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1950 - 1985 
Michael Whalen Michael Whalen was an American plant taxonomist and chemotaxonomist who specialized in neotropical Solanum (Solanaceae). He was a professor at the Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University. |
1877 - 1944 
Herbert Whetzel Herbert Hice Whetzel was an American phytopathologist and mycologist on the faculty of Cornell University, and who established Cornell's Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP). |
1872 - 1943 
Edward White Edward White was an American horticulturist who served as the first Head of the Department of Floriculture at Cornell University. He was an authority on orchids. |
1862 - 1935 
Charles White Charles David White was an American geologist and paleobotanist who developed the carbon-ratio hypothesis used for oil and gas exploration.. He was Associate Curator of Paleobotany at the Smithsonian Institution and President of the Geological Society of America. His fossil work was mostly on Paleozoic fossil plants. |
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. |
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1873 - 1942 
Karl Wiegand Karl McKay Wiegand was a world-renowned American plant taxonomist and head of the Department of Botany at Cornell University from 1913 until his retirement 28 years later. |
1930 - 2003 
Hans-Joachim Wiehler Hans-Joachim Wiehler came to the United States as an exchange student from Germany who, after having studied with Harold E. Moore Jr. at Cornell University, became a specialist in the Gesneriaceae, and was associated with the Marie Selby Botanic Garden and the Gesneriad Research Society in Sarasota, Florida. |
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. |
1916 - 2003
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Robert Wilkinson Robert E. Wilkinson was a widely respected American plant pathologist specializing in several important vegetable crops. He both studied and taught at Cornell University. |
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1859 - 1936 
Henry Wing Henry H. Wing was a Professor of Animal Husbandry at Cornell University, his alma mater (B.S., 1881), who also served in several leadership roles at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. |
1913 - 1998
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William Winne William Thomas Winne was an American botanist who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a professor at Union College. |
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. |
1879 - 1970
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Albert Wright Albert Hazen Wright was a herpetologist, ecologist, botanist, and historian who studied at Cornell for his undergraduate, master's, and Ph.D., and later returned as a zoology professor and Bailey Hortorium board member. |