Albert Francis Blakeslee

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Albert Francis Blakeslee

American botanist

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Last Updated: Feb 16, 2024 • Article History

Category: Science & Tech

Born:: Nov. 9, 1874, Geneseo, N.Y., U.S.

Died:: Nov. 16, 1954, Northampton, Mass. (aged 80)

Subjects Of Study:: jimsonweed; plant; fungus; genetics; sexual reproduction

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Albert Francis Blakeslee (born Nov. 9, 1874, Geneseo, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 16, 1954, Northampton, Mass.) was a prominent American botanist and geneticist who achieved world renown for his research on plants. The son of a Methodist minister, Blakeslee was awarded a B.A., cum laude, from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1896). After three years of teaching mathematics and science in a preparatory school, he entered Harvard University (1899) for graduate work. In 1900 he received his M.A. and in 1904 his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis, which was published the same year and entitled “Sexual Reproduction in the Mucorineae,” brought him immediate ...(100 of 242 words)

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