Hugh Iltis
Hugh Iltis | |
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Hugh Iltis at his 85th birthday celebration | |
| Born | Hugo Hellmut Iltis April 7, 1925 |
| Died | December 19, 2016 (aged 91) |
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| Children | 4 |
| Awards | Merit Award of the National Wildlife Federation (1992) Asa Gray Award of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (1994) Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Systematic botany |
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| Thesis | A Revision of the New World Species of Cleome (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Edgar Anderson |
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| Author abbrev. (botany) | Iltis |
Hugh Iltis (April 7, 1925 – December 19, 2016) was a professor of botany and director of the herbarium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While he is most noted as a scientist for his role in the discovery of perennial teosinte (Zea diploperennis), a wild diploid relative of modern maize (Zea mays), he is also remembered as an outspoken environmental conservationist.