Walter S. Judd (born 1951) is an

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botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

, and distinguished professor in the Department of Botany,

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

since 2009.University of Florida, Department of Biology: Walter S Judd
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Career

Judd attended

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

(B.S. 1973, M.S. 1974) and

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 ...

(Ph.D. 1978). He became an assistant professor in the Department of Botany at the

(1978–1983), associate professor (1983–1991) and professor in 1991. He was president of the

American Society of Plant Taxonomists The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and b ...

2000–2001.

Contributions

Professor Judd has been a contributor to the

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) is an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships disco ...

and produced his own modification of this in 1999, the

Judd system A 20th-century list of systems of plant taxonomy, system of plant taxonomy, the Judd system (1999-2016) of plant classification was drawn up by the American botanist Walter S. Judd (1951-) and collaborators, partially based on Angiosperm Phylogeny G ...

Awards

*American Society of Plant Taxonomists: Asa Gray Award 2011 *National Museum of Natural History: 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 ...

2012.National Museum of Natural History: José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany 2012.
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Publications

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References

Sources

JSTOR: Global PlantsHarvard Botanist Index
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