Aaron Goldberg (botanist)
| Aaron Goldberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 4, 1917 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | December 13, 2014 (aged 97) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | US Department of Agriculture, National Museum of Natural History |
| Alma mater | George Washington University |
| Known for | Goldberg system, Spermatophytes |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Goldberg |
Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014) was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.
Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University He received his B.A. in 1939 from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in 1954 from De Paul University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. Member of the Botanical Society of America.
He is best known for the Goldberg system a treatise on the classification, evolution and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.
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