Doris Benta Maria Löve, ''née'' Wahlén (born 2 January 1918 in

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– deceased 25 February 2000 in

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) was a Swedish systematic

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, particularly active in the

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Biography

Doris Löve was born in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. She studied

botany 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 w ...

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Icelander Icelander can refer to: *A person from the country of Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's ...

Áskell Löve Áskell Löve (20 October 1916 – 29 May 1994) was an Icelandic systematic botanist, particularly active in the Arctic. Education Áskell studied botany at Lund University, Sweden, from 1937. He received his PhD in 1942 in botany and a D.Sc. ...

. She received her

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in botany in 1944. She focused her doctorate on the sexuality of ''Melandrium''. After their studies, the couple moved to Iceland. They moved to Winnipeg in 1951, to Montreal in 1955, and to Boulder in 1965. At universities where Áskell Löve taught, Doris Löve could not hold a faculty position at the same time as her husband. They finally moved to San Jose, California, in 1974. Together, Áskell and Doris Löve undertook numerous investigations of the

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s of plants and their use in

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. They published numerous accounts in this field, and are considered the founders of cytotaxonomy. In 1962, she was the convener of an influential scientific conference on the ''North Atlantic Biota and their History'' with contributions from a.o.

Eric Hultén Oskar Eric Gunnar Hultén (18 March 1894 – 1 February 1981) was a Swedish botanist, plant geographer and 20th century explorer of The Arctic. He was born in Halla in Södermanland. He took his licentiate exam 1931 at Stockholm University and obt ...

Tyge W. Böcher Tyge Wittrock Böcher (25 October 1909 – 15 March 1983) was a Danish botanist, evolutionary biologist, plant ecologist and phytogeographer. He was born in Copenhagen to physician Einar Böcher and wife Cathinca née Andersen. ''Steen B. Böc ...

, Hugo Sjörs,

John Axel Nannfeldt John-Axel Nannfeldt (baptized ''Johan Axel Frithiof Nannfeldt''), born 18 January 1904 in Trelleborg and deceased 4 November 1985 in Uppsala, was a Swedish botanist and mycologist. Nannfeldt studied natural history at the University of Uppsal ...

Knut Fægri Knut Fægri (17 July 1909 – 10 December 2001) was a Norwegian botanist and palaeoecologist. Fægri was born in Bergen. He was the son of Major Ole A. Fægri (1875–1962) and Gudrun Stoltz (1881–1940) and the nephew of the botanist, natural ...

, Bruce C. Heezen and

Marie Tharp Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Her cartograph ...

. In 1974, her husband Áskell Löve, then full professor and chairman of the biology department of the

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, was forced to resign. In 1997, she wrote her family history, a 86-page biography that provides a detailed explanation of her husband's forced resignation. This mémoire was deposited at the

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in Pittsburgh in 1997 and was supposed to be kept unreleased until 2018.

Other roles

* Member of the

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(IAAR) * Associate curator of University of Colorado Museum Herbarium (COLO)

Selected publications

Papers on botany

* * * * *

Conference proceedings

* This conference dealt with biogeographical effects of the

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. Her classification work enabled

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's wife Jocelyn to put together an herbarium of plants from the

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Translations

* ''Botanical observations of the Penny Highlands of Baffin Island, Results of the Second Baffin Expedition by the Arctic Institute of North America (1953) under the leadership of Col. P.D. Baird'' *

Nikolai Vavilov Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf, a=Ru-Nikolay_Ivanovich_Vavilov.ogg; – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist a ...

, ''Origin and geography of cultivated plants, Archives of Natural History'', January 1994 Doris Löve also translated two books of

in English.

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Love, Doris 1918 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Swedish botanists Swedish women botanists Botanists active in the Arctic Lund University alumni University of Iceland faculty University of Manitoba faculty Université de Montréal faculty 20th-century Swedish women scientists Swedish expatriates in the United States Swedish expatriates in Canada Swedish expatriates in Iceland