biography
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Bessey, Charles Edwin
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1845–1915)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Milton Township, Ohio, USA. After growing up on a farm, he founded curricula in botany and horticulture at the Iowa Agricultural College (1870–84), then joined the University of Nebraska (1884–1915), where he became a respected educator and administrator, holding deanships and serving as an officer in many professional botanical and agricultural associations. He was a pioneer in the taxonomy and evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants having enclosed seeds). A dedicated and popular teacher, he wrote a series of high-school and college textbooks, and introduced the laboratory method (including microscopy) to augment his lectures. |
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