Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014) was an

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and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.

Career

Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University He received his B.A. in 1939 from

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, an M.S. in 1954 from

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, and a Ph.D. from

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in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a

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in Botany with the

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. Member of the

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Achievements

He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.

Work

*Aaron Goldberg (1967). "The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 34, pt. 5. * * * *Aaron Goldberg and Harry A. Alden (2005). Taxonomy of Haptanthus Goldberg & C. Nelson, Systematic Botany, 30(4): pp. 773–778 *Aaron Goldberg. "Genus Melochia (Sterculiaceae)", Flora North America in press

References

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