Hugh Iltis
American botanist (1925 – 2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hugh Iltis (April 7, 1925 – December 19, 2016) was a professor of botany and director of the herbarium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While he is most noted as a scientist for his role in the discovery of perennial teosinte (Zea diploperennis), a wild diploid relative of modern maize (Zea mays), he is also remembered as an outspoken environmental conservationist.[2]
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Born | Hugo Hellmut Iltis (1925-04-07)April 7, 1925 |
Died | December 19, 2016(2016-12-19) (aged 91) |
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Children | 4 |
Awards | Merit Award of the National Wildlife Federation (1992) Asa Gray Award of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (1994) Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame (2017)[1] |
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Fields | Systematic botany |
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Thesis | A Revision of the New World Species of Cleome (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Edgar Anderson |
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Author abbrev. (botany) | Iltis |
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