Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

Aaron Goldberg
Born November 4, 1917[1]
Brooklyn, New York
Died December 13, 2014(2014-12-13) (aged 97)
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

References

  1. American Men & Women of Science Volume 3. Thomson/Gale. 2009. p. 187. ISBN 0787665266.
  2. Harvard University: Index of Botanists
  3. Aaron Goldberg
  4. Aaron Goldberg
  5. 1 2 Dorr, L. J.; Phillips, A. J. (2015). "Aaron Goldberg (1917-2014): Parasitologist turned Plant Phylogenist" (PDF). The Plant Press 18 (1): 8–9. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. "Aaron Goldberg". Department of Botany. Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. National Museum of Natural History: Aaron Goldberg
  8. Botanical Society of America: Member Images
  9. "Author Query for 'Goldberg'". International Plant Names Index.
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