Carl Otto Rosendahl (1875–1956) was a

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, whose areas of interest were

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and

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s. He both preceded and succeeded

James Arthur Harris James Arthur Harris (1880–1930) was a botanist and biometrician, known for the Harris–Benedict equation. He was the head of the department of botany at the University of Minnesota from 1924 to 1930. (He was both preceded and succeeded by Ca ...

(1880–1930) as Head of the Department of Botany at the

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Arthur Cronquist Arthur John Cronquist (March 19, 1919 – March 22, 1992) was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cr ...

(1919–1992), a botanist known for the

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, made his doctorate at the University of Minnesota under C.O. Rosendahl, earning his PhD in 1944.

Publications

* The Problem of Subspecific Categories. Carl Otto Rosendahl, ''American Journal of Botany'', vol. 36, no. 1, 1949

References

* J. Arthur Harris, Botanist and Biometrician, by C. O. Rosendahl; R. A. Gortner; G. O. Burr. (See review in Ecology, 18(2) (Apr., 1937), pp. 295–298. American botanists 1875 births 1956 deaths American mycologists {{US-botanist-stub

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