Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…I arrived at Iowa State University as one of Richard Pohl’s graduate students. Mike had been working for about two years on the taxonomy of Dichanthelium, at that time regarded…

Francis Joseph LeClair

…the two-hour walk through the two hundred-year-old campus, attendees beheld mature specimens of the older American holly cultivars. Hunt continued by saying that “older plantings here are the work of…

Harley Harris Bartlett

…Harvard University in 1908. As an undergraduate he worked in the herbarium at Harvard. “He might have continued for graduate work in botany at Harvard, had not formal requirements become…

Harry E. Ahles

…a major floristic study of that state. This work resulted in the Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (University of North Carolina Press, 1968), which served as the…

Eugene Bourgeau

…to the Wikipedia page devoted to Bourgeau, he was a native of Brizon, France. “As a young man he worked at the botanical garden in Lyon, where his influences included…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Kenneth Bryan Raper

…and the US National Fungus Collection (BPI). Kenneth Raper is best known for his work on Penicillium, the organism which produces the antibiotic Penicillin, as well as his work on…

Sarah “Sadie” Frances Price

…corresponded with other leading botanists of the time. Her artwork also won her public acclaim. An exhibition of her plant and bird illustrations won first prize at the Chicago World’s…

George Washington Carver

Man,” is available from the University Library Digital Collections. He was the first African American to earn a degree from Iowa State University.(1) Carver continued at Iowa for his graduate…