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Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Botany

Role
  
Botanist

Name
  
Aaron Goldberg

Author abbrev. (botany)
  
Goldberg


Institutions
  
US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History

Known for
  
Goldberg system, Spermatophytes

Died
  
December 13, 2014, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

Alma mater
  
George Washington University

Books
  
Classification, Evolution, and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons

Institution
  
United States Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History

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

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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. Member of the Botanical Society of America.

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.
  • Aaron Goldberg (1986). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 58: 1–314. 
  • Aaron Goldberg (1989). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Monocotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 71: 1–73. 
  • Aaron Goldberg (2003). "Character Variation in Angiosperm Families" (PDF). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 47: 1–185. 
  • 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
  • References

    Aaron Goldberg (botanist) Wikipedia