Peter H. Raven
Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936 in Shanghai ) is an American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " PHRaven ".
Life
Raven was born to Americans in Shanghai. The family returned to the United States in San Francisco in the late 1930s . Raven graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1957 and received a PhD in botany from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960 . In 1962 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at Stanford University . From 1971 to 2011 he was director of the Missouri Botanical Garden . He was also Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis.
As a botanist, he dealt in particular with evening primrose plants , cytogenetics , ethnobotany, biogeography, pollination systems and generally with plant systematics, nature conservation issues , the flora of China, North America and the tropics. He is internationally known as an advocate for biodiversity and species protection. For this he received numerous prizes. He is co-author of a popular botany textbook.
Honors
He is an honorary member of the German Botanical Society , a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Raven is a multiple honorary doctor . In 1985 he became a MacArthur Fellow . In 1996 he received the Asa Gray Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. In 1983 he was President of the American Society of Naturalists . Raven is a foreign member of the Danish and Swedish Academy of Sciences , the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , the Third World Academy of Sciences , the Russian Academy of Sciences , the Royal Society and a member of numerous other academies.
He is Honorary Director of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Research and Exploration Committee of the National Geographic Society. He is co-editor of the Sino-US book project Flora of China (created for around 50 volumes).
In 2000 he received the National Medal of Science . In 1969/70 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He received the Japanese government's international biology prize in 1986, the Institute de la Vie environmental prize , the Volvo Environment Prize in 1992 , the Typer Environmental Prize in 1995, the Sasakawa Environment Prize in 1995 and the international Cosmos Prize in Osaka. In 2008 he received the BBVA Prize for Ecology and Nature Conservation in Madrid. In 1977 he received the Merit Award from the Botanical Society of America and in 1996 the Liberty Hyde Bailey Medal from the American Horticultural Society.
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (of which he was president in 1972) endowed the Peter Raven Award in 2000. From 1983 he was on the executive council of the American section of the WWF.
The plant genera Peteravenia R.M. King & H.Rob are named after Raven . from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Megacorax S.González & WLWagner from the evening primrose family (Onagraceae).
Fonts
- with Paul R. Ehrlich: Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution , Evolution, Volume 18, 1964, pp. 586-608
- with Ray F. Evert, Susan E. Eichhorn: Biology of Plants , 8th edition, Freeman 2012 (first with Helena Curtis, New York: Worth Publ. 1970)
- German edition: Evert, Curtis, Raven: Biology of Plants , De Gruyter 1985; 4th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-018531-7
- with Linda Berg, David Hassenzahl: Environment , Wiley, 8th edition 2011
Web links
- Honorary members of the German Botanical Society
- Website at the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Peter H. Raven at the IPNI
References and comments
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raven, Peter H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raven, Peter Hamilton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |