Aaron Goldberg (botanist)
Aaron Goldberg | |
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Born | November 4, 1917[1] |
Died | December 13, 2014 | (aged 97)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | George Washington University |
Known for | Goldberg system, Spermatophytes[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Institutions | US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Goldberg |
Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)[3][4] was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 in Montgomery County, Maryland, at the age of 97. He is survived by a sister.[citation needed]
Career
Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University He received his B.A. in 1939 from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in 1954 from De Paul University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C.[5][6] Member of the Botanical Society of America.[7]
Achievements
He is best known for the Goldberg system a treatise on the classification, evolution and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.
Work
- Aaron Goldberg (1967). "The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 34, pt. 5.
- Aaron Goldberg (1986). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 58: 1–314.
- Aaron Goldberg (1989). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Monocotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 71: 1–73.
- Aaron Goldberg (2003). "Varience of Characters in Angiosperm Families." Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 47: pp. 1–185
- Aaron Goldberg and Harry A. Alden (2005). Taxonomy of Haptanthus Goldberg & C. Nelson, Systematic Botany, 30(4): pp. 773–778
- Aaron Goldberg. "Genus Melochia (Sterculiaceae)", Flora North America in press
References
- ^ American Men & Women of Science Volume 3. Thomson/Gale. 2009. p. 187. ISBN 0787665266.
- ^ Harvard University: Index of Botanists
- ^ Aaron Goldberg
- ^ Aaron Goldberg
- ^ Smithsonian Institution: Aaron Goldberg
- ^ National Museum of Natural History: Aaron Goldberg
- ^ Botanical Society of America: Member Images
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Goldberg.