Richard Walter Pohl
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Dr. Richard W. Pohl (May 21, 1916 - September 3, 1993) was an American botanist and Professor of Botany at Iowa State University who was an expert in grasses, especially western hemisphere tropical woody bamboos. From 1950 to 1986, he served as Curator of Iowa State University's Ada Hayden Herbarium (ISC) and served as Professor Emeritus from his retirement in 1986 until his death in 1993. He obtained his B.S. from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. in 1939 and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1947. As an undergraduate student, Pohl volunteered for the Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium (MIL) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.[1]
References
- ^ Clark, Lynn G. (1994). "Richard W. Pohl (1916-1993)". Taxon. 43 (1): 138–140. JSTOR 1223475.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. R.W.Pohl.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Botanists with author abbreviations
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with Botanist identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1916 births
- 1993 deaths
- Marquette University alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Iowa State University faculty
- 20th-century American botanists