Charles Joseph Chamberlain, Ph.D. (February 23, 1863 – February 5, 1943) was an

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botanist, born near Sullivan,

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, and educated at Oberlin College and at the

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, where he earned the first Ph.D. in that institution's botany department, and where he was a long-time employee, becoming associate professor in 1911. He is known for pioneering the use of zoological techniques on the study of plants, particularly in the realm of microscopic studies of tissues and cells; his specialty was the

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. He made contributions to the ''Botanical Gazette'', and was the author of ''Methods in Plant Histology'' (1901) and ''The Morphology of Angiosperms'' (1903). In collaboration with John M. Coulter, he wrote ''The Morphology of Gymnosperms'' (1910). Chamberlain married Martha E. Life in 1888 and they had one daughter; after his wife died in 1931, he married Martha Stanley Lathrop in 1938. He died in

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1863 births 1943 deaths American botanists American botanical writers American male non-fiction writers Oberlin College alumni University of Chicago alumni People from Ashland County, Ohio {{US-botanist-stub