Armen takhtajan biography of mahatma
ARMEN L. TAKHTAJAN (1910-2009)from Botanical Electronic News..
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ARMEN L.
TAKHTAJAN (1910-2009)From: Nancy R. Morin@nau.edu [Originally published in the FNA Newsletter 23: 23-24.]
Armen Leonovich Takhtajan, one of the greatest botanists of our time, passed away on November 13, 2009, at the age of 99.
He was born June 10, 1910, in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Southern Caucasus.
Armen takhtajan biography of mahatma
He had just published his revised classification, Flowering Plants (Springer, 2009), in which he synthesized his own vast knowledge of plant evolution acquired over 60 years of study and much of the phylogenetic information that had been published in recent years by others.
He graduated from the Institute of Subtropical Cultivation in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1932, received his Ph.D. in Leningrad in 1938, and his Dr. Sci. at Yerevan State University in 1943. He was on staff at various institutions in Yerevan