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Richard Buxton (15 January 1785 – 2 January 1865) [note 2] was a British shoemaker and amateur botanist. Born in Prestwich, Lancashire, to a family who lived in humble circumstances, he taught himself to read, and learned the basic principles of botany.
Frances (Fran) Bodkin (born 1937) is an Australian botanist and Dharawal elder. [1] [2] She is the author of Encyclopaedia Botanica: The Essential Reference Guide to Native and Exotic Plants in Australia (1986). [3] In the 1970s, she helped establish the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan near Sydney at a former meeting site of Indigenous ...
Van Wyk was born in 1952 in Wolmaransstad, North-West Province, South Africa and grew up on a maize (corn) and cattle farm. [2] In 1973, he completed a BSc (Botany, Zoology, Physiology) at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (PCHO), followed by a BSc (Hons) in 1974, a Higher Diploma in Education in 1976 and a MSc (Botany) in 1977 (supervised by DJ Botha).
Ann Fowler Rhoads (born 1938 [1]) is an American botanist who worked as a plant pathologist at Morris Arboretum for 36 years, retiring in 2013. [2] [3] She is the co-founder (with Timothy A. Block) of the Pennsylvania Flora Project of Morris Arboretum. [4]
James A. Duke (4 April 1929 – 10 December 2017) was an American botanist. [1] He was the author of numerous publications on botanical medicine, including the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. He was well known for his 1997 bestseller, The Green Pharmacy. He developed the Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases at the USDA. [2] [3]
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. [1]Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal (1835–1881).