Society for Economic Botany
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| Formation | 1959 |
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| Purpose | Furthering economic botany |
Region | Worldwide |
Official language | English |
President | Mark Nesbitt |
Main organ | Council |
| Website | www |
The Society for Economic Botany is an international learned society covering the field of economic botany. It was established in 1959. Its official journal is Economic Botany, published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press.[1] The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People.[2] The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Economic Botanist to particularly meritorious individuals.[3][4]
Distinguished Economic Botanist prize[]
Recent recipients of the Distinguished Economic Botanist prize include:[4]
- (2019)
- Gary Nabhan (2018)
- Roy Ellen (2017)
- (2016)
- Daniel Moerman (2015)
- Jan Salick (2014)
- (2013)
- (2012)
- Nancy Turner (2011)
- and (2010)
- Nina Etkin and Michael J. Balick (2009)
- Brent Berlin and (2008)
- W. Hardy Eshbaugh (2007)
- and
- Harold C. Conklin (2005)
- Gordon Hillman (2004)
- Daniel Zohary (2003)
- Ghillean Prance (2002)
- Isabella Abbott (2001)
- James Duke (2000)
- S. K. Jain (1999)
- Hugh H. Iltis (1998)
- Carlos Ochoa (1997)
- Jack G. Hawkes (1996)
- Varro Tyler (1995)
- (1994)
- Mildred Mathias (1993)
- (1992)
- N. W. Simmonds (1991)
- Herbert G. Baker (1990)
- (1989)
- Oswald Tippo (1988)
- Charles Rick (1987)
- (1986)
- Jack R. Harlan (1985)
- Charles B. Heiser (1984)
- N. R. Farnsworth (1983)
- William L. Brown (1982)
- (1981)
- Thomas W. Whitaker (1980)
- Richard Evans Schultes (1979)
- Julia F. Morton (1978)
Past Presidents[]
Past presidents of the society include:[5]
- (2018)
- Gayle Fritz (2017)
- (2016)
- Cassandra Quave (2015)
- J. Richard Stepp (2014)
- Robert Bye (2013)
- (2012)
- Rainer W. Bussmann (2011)
- (2010)
- (2009)
- (2008)
- (2007)
- (2006)
- (2005)
- (2004)
- Timothy Johns (2003)
- Gary Martin (2002)
- Brian M. Boom (2001)
- Barbara Pickersgill (2000)
- Beryl Simpson (1999)
- (1998)
- Jan Salick (1997)
- Ghillean T. Prance (1996)
- (1995)
- Paul Alan Cox (1994)
- Jean H. Langenheim (1993)
- Michael J. Balick (1992)
- (1991)
- (1990)
- (1989)
- Paul A. Fryxell (1988)
- Lawrence Kaplan (1987)
- (1986)
- (1985)
- (1984)
- W. Hardy Eshbaugh (1983)
- (1982)
- (1981)
- (1980)
- (1979)
- Charles B. Heiser (1978)
- (1976)
- Walter H. Hodge (1975)
- Monroe E. Wall (1974)
- Howard S. Gentry (1973)
- (1972)
- R. Gordon Wasson (1971)
- (1970)
- (1969)
- Thomas W. Whitaker (1968)
- Otto Frankel (1967)
- (1966)
- Edgar Anderson (1965)
- (1964)
- (1963)
- Paul C. Mangelsdorf (1962)
- (1961)
- (1959)
References[]
- ^ "Economic Botany". Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ^ "Plants and People". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ^ "Two botanists recognised as Distinguished Economic Botanists by the Society of Economic Botany". Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Distinguished Economic Botanists". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ "Society Officers". Society for Economic Botany. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
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