Simen Oscar Fredrik Omang (23 March 1867 – 29 November 1953) was a Norwegian botanist.
Biography
Omang was born in
Hamar on 23 March 1867, and graduated as
cand.real.
Candidatus realium or candidata realium (abbreviated cand. real.) is a former academic degree used in Norway, and conferred in mathematics and natural sciences. It was abolished in 1985. There was originally no set duration for the completion of th ...
in 1895. He specialized in the genus
Hieracium, and described several new species of the genus.
He was the father of
Reidar Omang.
References
1867 births
1953 deaths
People from Hamar
20th-century Norwegian botanists
19th-century Norwegian botanists
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