| 词条 | Rogers McVaugh |
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|image = |image_size = 150px | | name = Rogers McVaugh | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|5|30}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|09|24|1909|05|30}} | death_place = Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. | field = Botany | alma_mater = Swarthmore College University of Pennsylvania | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | prizes = }}Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 – September 24, 2009)[1] was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[1] The plant genus Mcvaughia was named in his honor in 1979.[2] BiographyBorn in New York City, Rogers McVaugh was a brilliant student. He earned the bachelor's degree with highest honors in botany from Swarthmore College in 1931 and a Ph.D in botany from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935.[1] McVaugh's first published paper is Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora, published in 1935. His final publication was Marcus E. Jones in Mexico, 1892, published in 2005.[1] WritingsMcVaugh's last, partially completed work was the Flora Novo-Galiciana, a multi-volume work focusing on the diverse flora of a region in western Mexico. In 1984, he was awarded the Botanical Society of America’s Henry Allan Gleason Award for his work on this project.[1] McVaugh published about 12 books and 200 shorter articles in history of botany, floristics and systematic botany, including Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2481090]. Among his contributions was a biography of the 19th-century naturalist Edward Palmer.[3] FamilyIn 1937 Rogers McVaugh married Ruth Beall, who died in 1987. His two children are Michael Rogers McVaugh and Jenifer Beall McVaugh.[1] Centenary & deathOn May 30, 2009 he celebrated his 100th birthday.[4] He died, aged 100, on September 24, 2009. Career
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 Herbarium.UNC 2. ^https://www.lsa.umich.edu/herb/malpigh/MALPpdf/Tx28-McVaughia.pdf 3. ^McVaugh, Rogers. 1956. Edward Palmer: Plant Explorer of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 4. ^The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Botanist, Herbarium Curator turns 100 External links
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