Reed Clark Rollins
Born(1911-12-07)December 7, 1911
DiedApril 28, 1998(1998-04-28) (aged 86)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wyoming
Harvard University[1]
Occupation(s)Botanist, Professor

Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911  28 April 1998) was an American botanist, professor at Harvard University and one of the founders of both the International Association for Plant Taxonomy[2] and the Organization for Tropical Studies.[3] He was also the second president of each of them.[2][4]

Sources

  • Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan A. "Reed Clark Rollins (7 December 1911 – 28 April 1998)" Taxon 48(2): pp. 225–56
  • Campbell, Christopher S. and Greene, Craig W. (1988) "A Tribute to Reed Clark Rollins, Recipient of the 1987 Asa Gray Award" Systematic Botany 13(1): pp. 170–171

References

  1. "We've moved".
  2. 1 2 Cowan, R. S. and Stafleu, F. A. (1982) "The origin and early history of IAPT" Taxon 31(3): pp. 415–420
  3. Stone, Donald E. (1988) "The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS): A Success Story in Graduate Training and Research" in Almeda, Frank and Pringle, Catherine M. (1988) Tropical Rainforests: Diversity and Conservation California Academy of Sciences and Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, California, pp. 143–187, p. 152 ISBN 0-940228-19-X, accessed 6 April 2009
  4. "Organization for Tropical Studies - The Rogues Gallery of Presidents", accessed 6 April 2009
Botanist designation



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