Robert Wight
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 152 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 6,1796 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | East Lothian |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | May 26,1872 |
| Died | Reading |
| United Kingdom | |
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| ID | 977441 |
Robert Wight Life story
Robert Wight MD FRS FLS was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botanist and leading taxonomist in south India. He contributed to the introduction of American cotton.
