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] was an American botanist and parasitologist. [4] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97. [4]
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]
He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.
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] was an American botanist and parasitologist. [4] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97. [4]
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]
He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.