Hugh Iltis
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 8 years ago |
Date of birth | April 7,1925 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Czechoslovakia |
Date of died | December 19,2016 |
Died | United States |
Parents | Hugo Iltis |
Siblings | Fred Iltis |
Academic advisors | Julian Alfred Steyermark |
Edgar Anderson | |
Robert Everard Woodson | |
Job | Professor |
Conservationist | |
Plant Biologist | |
Education | Washington University in St. Louis |
University of Tennessee | |
Academic advisor | Edgar Anderson |
Julian Alfred Steyermark | |
Robert Everard Woodson | |
Author abbrev botani | Iltis |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1471690 |
Hugh Iltis Life story
Hugh Iltis was a professor of botany and director of the herbarium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While he is most noted as a scientist for his role in the discovery of perennial teosinte, a wild diploid relative of modern maize, he is also remembered as an outspoken environmental conservationist.