William T. Stearn (1911–2001)
Autor(a) de Botanical Latin
About the Author
William T. Stearn (1911-2001) was one of the outstanding botanists of the twentieth century, with an international reputation for research on plants, nomenclature, and the history of botany. He was librarian at the Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library for many years and later worked as a mostrar mais botanist at London's Natural History Museum. Among his many honors, he was awarded the R.H.S.'s Veitch and Victoria Medals, the Linnean Medal, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists' Asa Gray Award, and Sweden's Order of the North Star. Stearn was a prolific author, writing some 470 articles, monographs, and books on botany, bibliography, and horticulture mostrar menos
Image credit: William Thomas Stearn CBE
Obras de William T. Stearn
Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners: A Handbook on the Origin and Meaning of the Botanical Names of Some… (1706) 86 cópias
The Genus Epimedium and Other Herbaceous Berberidaceae (A Botanical Magazine Monograph) (2002) 25 cópias
John Lindley, 1799-1865 : gardener-botanist and pioneer orchidologist : bicentenary celebration volume (1999) 6 cópias
Peonies of Greece : a taxonomic and historical survey of the genus Paeonia in Greece (1984) 3 cópias
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778): A bicentenary guide to the career and achievements of Linnaeus and the collections of the… (1978) 2 cópias
Redouté's fairest flowers 1 exemplar(es)
Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth and tropical American botany; a miscellany on the "Nova genera et species plantarum." 1 exemplar(es)
Botanical Latin 4th edition 1 exemplar(es)
Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth and tropical American botany : a miscellany on the 'Nova genera et species… (1968) 1 exemplar(es)
Geographical and other abbreviations in the FLORA URSS by Komarov and others. New Phytologist Vo. 46:61-67. 1 exemplar(es)
Lilies of the world: Their cultivation & classification 1 exemplar(es)
Epimedium and Vancouveria (Berbidaceae), a monograph 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Stearn, William Thomas
- Data de nascimento
- 1911-04-16
- Data de falecimento
- 2001-05-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
- Ocupação
- botanist
- Premiações
- Linnean Medal (1976)
Engler Medal, gold, 1993
Asa Gray Award, 2000
VMH 1965
Membros
Resenhas
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 21
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 457
- Popularidade
- #53,730
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 27