Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

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Aaron Goldberg
Born November 4, 1917[1]
Brooklyn, New York
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Nationality American
Fields Botany
Institutions US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History
Alma mater George Washington University
Known for Goldberg system, Spermatophytes[2]
Author abbrev. (botany) Goldberg

Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)[3][4] was an American botanist and parasitologist.[5] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.[5]

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.[6][7] Member of the Botanical Society of America.[8]

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.
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  • 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
The standard author abbreviation Goldberg is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

References

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  2. ↑ Harvard University: Index of Botanists
  3. ↑ Aaron Goldberg
  4. ↑ Aaron Goldberg
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  7. ↑ National Museum of Natural History: Aaron Goldberg
  8. ↑ Botanical Society of America: Member Images
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