Name Rogers McVaugh Role Botany scientist | Fields Botany | |
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Born May 30, 1909
New York City, New York, U.S. ( 1909-05-30 ) Alma mater Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania Died September 24, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Books Flora Novo-Galiciana Education Swarth College, University of Pennsylvania People also search for William Russell Anderson, Stanley Adair Cain, Harold Rickett | ||
Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 – September 24, 2009) was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The plant genus Mcvaughia was named in his honor in 1979.
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Biography
Born in New York City, Rogers McVaugh was a brilliant student. He earned the bachelor's degree with highest honors in botany from Swarthmore College in 1931 and a Ph.D in botany from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935.
McVaugh's first published paper is Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora, published in 1935. His final publication was Marcus E. Jones in Mexico, 1892, published in 2005.
Writings
McVaugh's last, partially completed work was the Flora Novo-Galiciana, a multi-volume work focusing on the diverse flora of a region in western Mexico. In 1984, he was awarded the Botanical Society of America’s Henry Allan Gleason Award for his work on this project.
McVaugh published about 12 books and 200 shorter articles in history of botany, floristics and systematic botany, including Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora [1]. Among his contributions was a biography of the 19th-century naturalist Edward Palmer.
Family
In 1937 Rogers McVaugh married Ruth Beall, who died in 1987. His two children are Michael Rogers McVaugh and Jenifer Beall McVaugh.
Centenary & death
On May 30, 2009 he celebrated his 100th birthday. He died, aged 100, on September 24, 2009.