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Evgeniia Georgievna Pobedimova
Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova (1898-1973) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant collector noted for describing over 270 species in Russia, Ukraine and North Asia. Career She received a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the Komarov Botanical Institute in Leningrad in the late 1930s and although in 1941 she was appointed as a senior research fellow, she was transferred to war work. In 1944 she returned to Leningrad, and participated in the restoration of the Botanical Institute. During the Second World War she initially worked in a hospital in Leningrad and then in 1942 was evacuated first to Frunze and finally to Kazan. During her career, she was very active as a plant collector. In 1930-1931 she travelled to Mongolia and then to Central Asia in 1932. In 1946-1947 and 1949 she visited the Caucasus and Crimea and she was in the Mongolian Altai in 1953. Publications She was involved in production of monographs about several plant families, including Apocynaceae, Thymelaeace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", " herbs" "grass", or " fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
