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Sidney Fay Blake

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Sidney Fay Blake
Born1892
Stoughton, Massachusetts
Died1959
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture
Author abbrev. (botany)S.F.Blake

Sidney Fay Blake (1892–1959) was an American botanist.

Biography

Blake was born in 1892 in Stoughton, Massachusetts. In 1912, he received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a master's degree in 1913, and a Ph.D. in botany in 1917. The same year he received his Ph.D., he started his botanical career at the Bureau of Plant Industry for the United States Department of Agriculture, and worked there till he died in 1959. Blake published only one work in 2 volumes, Flora of the World, the second volume of which was published after his death.[1]

The standard author abbreviation S.F.Blake is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  S.F.Blake.


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