Alan Ackerman Beetle

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Alan "Doc" Ackerman Beetle
Born8 June 1913
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Died27 March 2003 (aged 89)
Riverton, Wyoming, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forWork with grasses, revising the genus Artemisia
Notable workAlan A. Beetle Herbarium
SpouseDorothy Erna Schoof (div. 1963)
Children3 (Howie, Karen, John)
Parent(s)Ralph Dennison Beetle and Helen Maria Ackerman
Scientific career
FieldsAgrostology, Botany
InstitutionsUniversity of Wyoming College of Agriculture

Alan "Doc" Ackerman Beetle (8 June 1913 in Princeton, New Jersey – 27 March 2003 in Riverton, Wyoming)[1] was an American agrostologist and botanist. He was a professor of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture in Laramie.

Life

Beetle adopted both surnames of his parents (Ralph Dennison Beetle and Helen Maria Ackerman).[2] He was married to botanist and malacologist Dorothy Erna, née Schoof (1918–2005), from whom he was divorced in 1963. They had two children, Howie and Karen. They also adopted a third child, John.[3]

Beetle collected plant specimens with his wife and many other botanists, and is best known for his work with grasses. The Alan A. Beetle Herbarium, a collection of his grass specimens numbering in excess of 10,000, is located at the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management at UW. In addition to grasses, Beetle worked together with another botanist in revising the genus Artemisia[2]

The standard author abbreviation Beetle is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Dr Alan Ackerman "Doc" Beetle". Find A Grave. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b JSTOR Biography, Retrieved on 27 October 2013
  3. ^ "Dorothy-Erna-Beetle-Pillmore Obituary". Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Beetle.


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