David E. Fairbrothers was an American

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, Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences of Rutgers University. In 1989 the

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gave him the Merit Award, their highest honor. The D. E. Fairbrothers Plant Resource Center at Rutgers is named in his honor.Fairbrothers Plant Resource Center
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