Richard Sumner Cowan ( 1921 - 1997 ) is an American and Australian botanist and bibliographer.
| Richard Sumner Cowan | |
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| English Richard Sumner Cowan | |
| Date of Birth | January 23, 1921 |
| Place of Birth | Crawfordsville , Indiana , USA |
| Date of death | November 17, 1997 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Perth , Australia |
| A country | USA, Australia |
| Scientific field | botany |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " RSCowan " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Biography
Richard Sumner Cowan was born in Crawfordsville , Indiana . He was educated in Florida , but in 1938 he returned to Indiana and in 1942 graduated from Wobash College with a bachelor's degree. In 1943-1945, Cowen served in the U.S. Navy in the Mariana Islands . In 1946, Cowan became an assistant to Harold St. John at the University of Hawaii . Subsequently, this university awarded Richard Sumner a master's degree for his work on the genus Neraudia .
Since 1948, Cowan worked as an assistant to Basset Maguire in the New York Botanical Garden . In 1952, Columbia University awarded him a Ph.D. for his dissertation on the genus Macrolobium . Since 1957, Richard worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington . In 1959, Cowan was on an expedition to the West Indies , in 1962 - in British Guyana . Then he became an assistant director of the National Museum of Natural History, from 1965 to 1972 he was deputy director. From 1975 to 1980, Cowan was the first editor-in-chief of the bean bag newspaper, dedicated to legumes. In 1985, Richard Sumner retired.
In 1986, R. S. Cowan moved to Perth . He began to study the local species of acacia for a monograph of the continental flora. In July 1997, he suffered a stroke, but in September received a serious head injury and died on November 17 .
Some scientific papers
- Stafleu, FA ; Cowan, RS (1979-1988). Taxonomic Literature . Ed. 2. - 7 vols.
Some plant species named after R. S. Cowen
- Acacia cowaniana Maslin , 1990
- Acmanthera cowanii WRAnderson , 1975
- Alexa cowanii Yakovlev , 1977
- Anthurium cowanii Croat , 1991
- Asplenium cowanii ARSm. , 1990
- Bombacopsis cowanii A. Robyns , 1967
- Brocchinia cowanii LBSm. 1957
- Byrsonima cowanii WRAnderson, 1981
- Cassia cowanii HSIrwin & Barneby , 1982
- Esenbeckia cowanii Kaastra , 1977
- Eugenia cowanii McVaugh , 1969
- Hirtella cowanii Prance & Maguire , 1972
- Ilex cowanii Wurdack , 1961
- Ixora cowanii Bremek. 1957
- Ocotea cowaniana CKAllen , 1964
- Ottonia cowanii Yunck. 1957
- Raveniopsis cowaniana Steyerm. & Luteyn , 1984
- Sipanea cowanii Steyerm., 1967
- Siphanthera cowanii Wurdack, 1958
- Syngonanthus cowanii Moldenke , 1953
Notes
Literature
- Nicolson, DH RS Cowan (1921-1997) (neopr.) // taxon . - 1998. - T. 47 , No. 2 . - S. 520-530 . - ISSN 0040-0262 .