Daniel Axelrod

Daniel Isaac Axelrod (born July 16, 1910 in Brooklyn - † June 2, 1998 ) was an American botanist and a leading paleoecologist . His specialty was the flora of the Cordilleras in the Tertiary , in particular the interpretation of fossil finds as indicators of climate change .

Life

Axelrod was the oldest of five children of Russian immigrants. He grew up in Guam and Honolulu ; he was 14 when his family settled in Oakland . Axelrod studied botany and received his Ph.D. in paleobotany from the University of California at Berkeley in 1938. PhD. He then did research at the National Museum of Natural History .

During World War II he served in the United States Army , where he analyzed aerial photographs of terrans . He was awarded the Bronze Star and promoted to Major . After the end of the war he received a position at the University of California at Los Angeles as assistant professor of geology . After he was promoted to full professor of geology and botany at UCLA, he moved in 1968 to professor of paleoecology at the University of California, Davis , where he was retired in 1976 .

Its collection of plant fossils is housed in the University of California Museum of Paleontology .

Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Axelrod. "

1972: New York Botanical Garden Award
1979: Hayden Memorial Geology Award from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
1980: Fellows Medal from the California Academy of Sciences
1981: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1985: Palaeobotanical Society International Medal
1990: Paleontological Society Medal
1993: Merit Award from the Botanical Society of America

personal data
SURNAME	Axelrod, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Axelrod, Daniel Isaac (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American botanist and paleoecologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1998