Philip Barry Tomlinson (born 1932) is a British botanist specializing in tropical botany. He graduated in Biology BSc and Botany PhD from University of Leeds. He is the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus at Harvard Forest,

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He was awarded the

Linnean Medal The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...

in 1999. He was awarded the José

Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany was initiated in 2001 by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, USA. It is named after José Cuatrecasas, a pioneering botanist and taxonomist who worked on the flora of tropic ...

in 2002.

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