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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Corresponding Members of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American botanical writers, 19th-century American philanthropists, 1810 births, American taxonomists
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Gray  Asa Gray
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United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) WordNet 3.0
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United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. Wikipedia
American botanist Wikidata
IS A
botanist
homo
ARCHIVES AT
Harvard University
AWARD RECEIVED
AAAS Fellow
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DOCTORAL ADVISOR
John Torrey
DOCTORAL STUDENT
Charles Edwin Bessey
EDUCATED AT
Fairfield Academy
EMPLOYER
Harvard University
University of Michigan
United States Exploring Expedition
FAMILY NAME
Gray
FIELD OF WORK
botany
GIVEN NAME
Asa
INFLUENCED BY
Amos Eaton
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
+3 relations
OCCUPATION
curator
botanist
professeur des universités
PLACE OF BIRTH
Paris
PLACE OF BURIAL
Mount Auburn Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Daniel Cady Eaton
STUDENT OF
John Torrey
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Gray, Asa Gray
Wikipedia
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Asa Gray
Wikidata
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Asa Gray
Wikipedia Redirections
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A. Gray, A.Gray, Asa Gray Award, Asa Gray disjunction, Gray's Manual, Gray, Asa, Grayan
Wikidata Alias
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A. Gray, A.Gray

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