Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)^[3][4] was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 in Montgomery County, Maryland, at the age of 97. He is survived by a sister.

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". Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 58: 1–314. 
• Aaron Goldberg (1989). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Monocotyledons". Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 71: 1–73. 
• Aaron Goldberg (2003). "Varience of Characters in Angiosperm Families." Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 47: pp. 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

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