Global InformationNatalie Whitford Uhl information
Natalie Whitford Uhl | |
|---|---|
| Born | Natalie B. Whitford 1919[2] |
| Died | March 28, 2017 (aged 97–98)[1] Georgia, USA[3] |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | Rhode Island State College, Cornell University[1] |
| Spouse | Charles H. Uhl[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany Palms |
| Institutions | L. H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium[1] |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | N.W.Uhl |
Natalie Whitford Uhl (1919–2017) was an American botanist[2] who specialised in palms.[1]
The eldest of three sisters, she grew up on a farm in Rhode Island.[4] She graduated B.S in 1940 from Rhode Island State College, publishing two papers on general plant morphology with Vernon Cheadle, her senior year advisor, the same year.[4][5][6] In 1940 she went to Cornell University,[4] earning her M.S. in 1943,[1] and her Ph.D. in 1947.[1][7] While at Cornell, she met and married her husband, Charles Uhl, abandoning botany to start a family.[8]
Her work with palms began in 1963,[1] when she returned to Cornell to work with Harold E. Moore, who was also the chief editor of Principes, the journal of the International Palm Society.[8][9] She published her first article as sole author in 1966, on palm inflorescence morphology.[10] In 1978, she and John Dransfield became associate editors of Principes, which later became Palms, and co-editors in 1980 with the death of Moore.[8] She continued to co-edit it until 2000.[1]
The Eocene fossil palm Uhlia allanbyensis was named in recognition of her work on palm taxonomy in 1994.[11] The palm species Aphandra natalia was named in her honor in 1987.[12]
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deathwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b IPNI: Natalie Whitford Uhl The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ a b Cornell Chronicle: Natalie Uhl renowned palm expert dies, at 97. (Matt Hayes, Magdalen Lindeberg, April 3, 2017)
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
asawas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cheadle, V.I. & Whitford, N.B. (1940) Notes on the occurrence and general structure of sieve tubes in the Monocotyledoneae. American Journal of Botany: 27 (Supplement to 19), 2s
- ^ Cheadle, V.I.; Whitford, N.B. (1941). "Observations on the Phloem in the Monocotyledoneae. I. The Occurrence and Phylogenetic Specialization in Structure of the Sieve Tubes in the Metaphloem". American Journal of Botany. 28 (8): 623–627. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1941.tb10986.x. ISSN 0002-9122.
- ^ Whitford, N.B. (1947) Studies in the floral morphology and anatomy of certain members of the Helobiae. Thesis QK82 1947 U31 (doctoral thesis) Cornell, Ithaca, N.Y.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
kurthwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Uhl, N.W.; Moore, H.E. (1971). "The Palm Gynoecium". American Journal of Botany. 58 (10): 945–992. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1971.tb10050.x. ISSN 0002-9122.
- ^ Uhl, Natalie W. (1966). "Morphology and Anatomy of the Inflorescence Axis and Flowers of a New Palm, Aristeyera Spicata". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 47 (1): 9–22. doi:10.5962/p.185708. JSTOR 43781549.
- ^ Erwin, D.M.; Stockey, R.A. (1994). "Permineralized monocotyledons from the middle Eocene Princeton chert (Allenby Formation) of British Columbia: Arecaceae". Palaeontographica Abteilung B. 234: 19–40.
- ^ Balslev, H.; Henderson, A. (1987). "A New Ammandra (Palmae) from Ecuador". Systematic Botany. 12: 501–504. doi:10.2307/2418885. JSTOR 2418885.