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Alice Eastwood
Canadian American botanist (1859ā1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 ā October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. She published over 310 scientific articles and authored 395 land plant species names, the fourth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist.[2] There are seventeen currently recognized species named for her, as well as the genera Eastwoodia and Aliciella.
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Born | January 19, 1859 (1859-01-19) Toronto, Canada West |
Died | October 30, 1953 (1953-10-31) (aged 94) San Francisco, California, United States |
Resting place | Toronto Necropolis[1] |
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Fields | Botany |
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Author abbrev. (botany) | Eastw. |
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