Theodore Robert Dudley

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Theodore Robert Dudley
Born1936
Died(1994-11-17)November 17, 1994 (57)
Bar Harbor, Maine
NationalityAmerican
Known forEarly taxonomy of bulbous plants
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)T.R.Dudley

Theodore (`Ted') Robert Dudley (1936–1994) was an American botanist, who died prematurely of a brain tumour.

Education & Career[]

He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained a PhD with the thesis "Taxonomic studies in the Cruciferae of the Near East".[1] Worked at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, from 1956.

Collections[]

Part of his collections are housed the University of Reading Herbarium. He collected widely in Argentina, and the Antarctic,[2] and also Turkey, Greece, Peru, Korea, China.

Honors[]

Marshall Scholarship

References[]

  1. ^ Dudley, Theodore R. (1963). "Taxonomic studies in the Cruciferae of the Near East". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ University of Reading Plant Sciences: Theodore, Robert Dudley
  3. ^ IPNI.  T.R.Dudley.

Sources[]

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