Jerzy Rzedowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jerzy Rzedowski

Mexican botanist

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1926

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: botanist

Nationality: Poland, Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jerzy Rzedowski

  • Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (born December 27, 1926) is a Mexican botanist.
  • He was born in Lwów, Poland (now in Ukraine). When he was young he was imprisoned by the Germans.
  • He remained in a concentration camp until World War II ended, and he was liberated by the Allies.
  • He then travelled to Mexico looking for a more peaceful country. He studied for a bachelor's degree in Biology at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional and a PhD in Botany at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • His thesis on the Flora of the Pedregal de San Angel was quite important at this stage of his career. He worked at different companies and institutions, including Syntex, Smith, Kline & French, Colegio de Postgraduados, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí and Instituto Politécnico Nacional, and not just in the herbarium.
  • He explored a lot of places surveying the local plant life and collected more than 50000 specimens that can be found in many herbaria. At the time he started to work on Mexican floristics, very few studies were published in that field, so he became a pioneer in it.
  • Afterwards, he became the most respected botanist in Mexico. Rzedowski is the author of Vegetación de México (1971), co-editor and co-author of Flora Fanerogámica del Valle de México (1979; 2001, 2nd edition), and of Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes (1991–). In 1995, he won the Asa Gray Award.
  • In 1999 he was one of the botanists on whom was conferred the Millennium Botany Award.
  • In 2005 he was awarded the José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany. The herbaria of Instituto Politécnico Nacional and of Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro are named after Rzedowski, as is also the botanical garden of Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. The following taxa have been named after him: Agave rzedowskiana Anthurium rzedowskii Bernardia rzedowskii Bouvardia rzedowskii Bursera rzedowskii Canthon rzedowskii Cercocarpus rzedowskii Commelina rzedowskii Crotalaria rzedowskii Croton rzedowskii Dalea rzedowskii Dioon rzedowskii Eleocharis rzedowskii Euphorbia rzedowskii Galium rzedowskii Habenaria rzedowskii Jatropha rzedowskii Pachyphytum rzedowskii Pinus rzedowskii Psilocybe rzedowskii Rondeletia rzedowskii Rzedowskia tolantonguensis Schoenocaulon rzedowskii Sedum jerzedowskii

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