Henry Nathaniel Andrews

Henry Nathaniel Andrews (born June 15, 1910 in Melrose, Massachusetts , † March 3, 2002 in Concord (New Hampshire) ) was an American botanist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " HNAndrews ".

Andrews received his bachelor's degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1934 and was a paleobotanist student of Ray Ethan Torrey (1887-1956) and Edgar Shannon Anderson (1897-1969). In 1937 he received his master's degree from Washington University , where he received his doctorate in 1939 with Robert Everard Woodson (1904-1963). He also studied in Cambridge with Hugh Hamshaw Thomas (1885–1962) and at the Natural History Museum in London. 1940 to 1964 he was a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and paleobotanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden (from 1947) and then until his retirement in 1975 professor at the University of Connecticut . From 1967 he was head of the Faculty of Botany.

He was particularly concerned with the flora of the Devonian and Carboniferous . He wrote a history of paleobotany.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 1939 he married Elizabeth (Lib) Claude Ham.

Fonts

• The Fossil Hunters: In Search of Ancient Plants, Cornell University Press 1980
• with Patricia Gensel: Plant life in the Devonian, Praeger 1984

He wrote the section on ferns in the Traité de Paléobotanique by Edouard Léon François Boureau (1913–1999).

literature

• TL Phillips, PG Gensel: Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr. (1910-): Paleobotanist, educator; and explorer, Geological Society of America Memoirs 1851995, pp. 245-254.
• Tom L. Phillips, Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, 88, 2006, pdf