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

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]

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 978-0787665265.
  2. ↑ Harvard University: Index of Botanists
  3. ↑ Aaron Goldberg
  4. 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.
  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". Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  8. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Goldberg.
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