The Mary Soper Pope Memorial Award, informally known as the Mary Soper Pope Medal, was awarded by the Cranbrook Institute of Science of Detroit, Michigan, for notable achievement in plant sciences. It was inaugurated in 1946, and the last award was in 1970. The medal itself was designed by sculptor

Marshall Fredericks Marshall Maynard Fredericks (January 31, 1908 – April 4, 1998) was an American sculptor known for such works as ''Fountain of Eternal Life'', ''The Spirit of Detroit'', ''Man and the Expanding Universe Fountain'', and many others. Early life a ...

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*1946

Frans Verdoorn Frans is an Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish given name, sometimes as a short form of ''François''. One cognate of Frans in English is ''Francis (given name), Francis''. Given name * Frans van Aarssens (1572� ...

*1947

Charles C. Deam Charles Clemon Deam (August 30, 1865 – May 29, 1953) was the first state forester of Indiana. His interest in botany began at a young age and grew to include categorization and sustainable practices. He discovered 25 new species, 48 plants are n ...

"Cranbrook Institute of Science Director's Papers"
Cranbrook website. Retrieved Dec. 27, 2016. *1948

William Vogt William Vogt (15 May 1902 – 11 July 1968) was an American ecologist and ornithologist, with a strong interest in both the carrying capacity and population control. He was the author of best-seller ''Road to Survival'' (1948), National Direc ...

*1949

Jens Christian Clausen Jens Christen (Christian) Clausen (March 11, 1891 – November 22, 1969) was a Denmark, Danish-United States, American botanist, geneticist, and ecologist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of ecological and evolutionary genetics of plants. ...

David D. Keck David Daniels Keck (October 24, 1903 – March 10, 1995) was an American botanist who was notable for his work on angiosperm taxonomy and genetics. Keck was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed undergraduate studies at Pomona College in 1925 ...

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William Hiesey William McKinley Hiesey (August 21, 1903 – August 7, 1998) was an American botanist who specialized in ecological physiology. He was notable for his collaboration with Jens Clausen and David D. Keck at Stanford University in the 1930s. In 194 ...

*1950

*1951 Martín Cárdenas *1952

Emma Lucy Braun E. Lucy Braun (April 19, 1889 – March 5, 1971) was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States who was a professor of the University of Cincinnati. She was the first woman to be elected President o ...

*1954

Irving Widmer Bailey Irving Widmer Bailey (August 15, 1884 – May 16, 1967) was an American botanist known for his work in plant anatomy. Early life and education Bailey was born in 1884, in Tilton, New Hampshire to Ruth Pouter Bailey and Solon Irving Bailey. His f ...

*1959

Kenneth Neatby Kenneth is an English language, English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and ''Cináed (disambiguation), Cináed''. The modern Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic form of ''C ...

*1962

Edmund H. Fulling Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''ēad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector". Persons named Edmund include: People Kings and ...

*1964

Edgar T. Wherry Edgar Theodore Wherry (1885–1982) was an American mineralogist, soil scientist and botanist. He had a deep interest in ferns and ''Sarracenia''. Wherry earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1906 from the University of Pennsylvania. He r ...

"Edgar Theodore Wherry"
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center website. Retrieved Dec. 27, 2016. *1966

Hally Jolivette Sax Hally Delilia Mary Jolivette Sax (June 22, 1884 – March 20, 1979),''U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014'' was an American botanist known for her work on the chromosomal structure of plant species and how it is affected by radiation and ...

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Karl Sax Karl Sax (November 2, 1892 – October 8, 1973) was an American botanist and geneticist, noted for his research in cytogenetics and the effect of radiation on chromosomes. Early life and education Sax was born in Spokane, Washington in 1892. His ...

*1969

Stanley A. Cain Stanley Adair Cain (19 June 1902, Deputy, Indiana – 1 April 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was a botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies. Biography Cain graduated from Butler University with B.S. in 1924 and from the Univ ...

*1970

William Campbell Steere William Campbell Steere (1907–1989) was an American botanist known as an expert on bryophytes, especially arctic and tropical American species. Early life Steere was born November 4, 1907 in Muskegon, Michigan to a family of Irish Quakers ...

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