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Listed here are botanists who lived at least 100 years. See also "Methuselah Botanists" |
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1906 - 2006 
Ethel K. Allen Ethel K. Allen was an American plant physiologist and bacteriologist who worked on symbiosis and nitrogen fixation |
1831 - 1932 
Caroline Bingham Caroline Bingham was one of the first American women to publish scientific papers in botany. |
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. |
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. |
1883 - 1986 
Gertrude Douglas Gertrude Douglas was an American educator and botanist who studied with George Atkinson at Cornell University. |
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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) |
1914 - 2018 
David Goodall David William Goodall was a British-born Australian plant taxonomist and plant physiologist who gained international attention when he elected assisted suicide at the age of 104 and flew to Switzerland because of legal barriers to his choice in Australia. |
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. |
1912 - 2013 
Walter Hodge Walter Henricks Hodge was an American ethnobotanist, economic botanist and phytochemist who studied Cinchona (Rubiaceae) and various other plants in the Andes of South America as well as in Africa |
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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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). |
1909 - 2009 
Rogers McVaugh Rogers McVaugh was an American botanist, internationally renowned for his expertise in taxonomy and Mexican flora. |
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). |
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. |
1855 - 1956 
Henry Ridley Henry Ridley was a British plant taxonomist, geologist, ornithologist and naturalist, who studied and published on many topics, and perhaps should be considered an early "evolutionary biologist." He also proposed that the decline of gymnosperms, such as the cycads, from the Jurassic to the late Cretaceous, was caused by competition from the newly emerged angiosperms. |
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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. |
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. |
1890 - 1993 
Ralph Stewart Ralph Randles Stewart (R.R. Stewart), was an American botanist who lived in Pakistan teaching and studying plants. |
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). |
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. |
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1918 - 2020 
William Weber Bill Weber was an American botanist and authority on lichens and mosses of the Galapagos Islands and of the Rocky Mountains. |