biography
| name: |
Hooker, Sir William Jackson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1785–1865)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. A chance discovery of a rare moss (1805) led him into a career in botany. He collected specimens in Scotland (1806) and Iceland (1809), and wrote his Recollections of Iceland (1811). He became professor at Glasgow (1820), and the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (1841), which he developed into the leading botanical institute in the world. |
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