Harvey Alfred Miller (October 19, 1928,

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– January 7, 2020, Palm Bay, Florida) was an American botanist, specializing in

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bryophytes.

Biography

After graduating from

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in 1946, Miller matriculated at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1950 with a B.S. in botany. He graduated in botany in 1952 from the

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with an M.S. and in 1957 from

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with a Ph.D. As a postdoc he was an instructor at the University of Massachusetts. During the 1950s and until 1967 he was on the faculty of Ohio's Miami University, where he achieved the rank of associate professor. In 1968 he was a professor at Washington State University, where he became chair of the botany department. He later became professor and chair at Florida Technological University (which in 1978 was renamed the University of Central Florida). He held visiting professorships at the

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and the University of Illinois. He was an adjunct professor at the University of West Alabama, Seminole State College of Florida, and Miami University (in Ohio). He was the author or coauthor of over 100 research articles. Miller was a licensed private plane pilot and had his first flying lessons when he was 14 years old. Miller was a 1958 Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the

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, and served as president of the

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(1964–1965) and president of the Florida Academy of Sciences (1981).

Selected publications

Articles

* 1953 * 1956 * 1958 * 1959 * 1960 * 1960 * 1960 * 1968 * * * * 1988 *

Books and monographs

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Harvey Alfred 1928 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American botanists 21st-century American botanists American bryologists University of Michigan alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Stanford University alumni Miami University faculty Washington State University faculty University of Central Florida faculty Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Linnean Society of London People from Sturgis, Michigan