Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)[3] was an American botanist and parasitologist.[4] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.[4]

Career

Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University He received his B.A. in 1939 from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in 1954 from De Paul University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C.[5][6] Member of the Botanical Society of America.[7]

Achievements

He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.

Work

• Aaron Goldberg (1967). "The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 34, pt. 5.
• Aaron Goldberg (1986). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 58: 1–314.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Aaron Goldberg (1989). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Monocotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 71: 1–73.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Aaron Goldberg (2003). "Character Variation in Angiosperm Families" (PDF). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 47: 1–185.
• Aaron Goldberg and Harry A. Alden (2005). Taxonomy of Haptanthus Goldberg & C. Nelson, Systematic Botany, 30(4): pp. 773–778
• Aaron Goldberg. "Genus Melochia (Sterculiaceae)", Flora North America in press

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