Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)[3] was an American botanist and parasitologist.[4] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.[4]

Aaron Goldberg
BornNovember 4, 1917[1]
Brooklyn, New York
DiedDecember 13, 2014(2014-12-13) (aged 97)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materGeorge Washington University
Known forGoldberg system, Spermatophytes[2]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUS Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History
Author abbrev. (botany)Goldberg

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.[5][6] Member of the Botanical Society of America.[7]

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
  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. 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.
  5. "Aaron Goldberg". Department of Botany. Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. National Museum of Natural History: Aaron Goldberg Archived 2014-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Botanical Society of America: Member Images
  8. IPNI.  Goldberg.
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