Michael Jeffrey Balick
Michael J. Balick | |
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| Born | July 21, 1952 |
| Alma mater | University of Delaware Harvard University |
| Known for | Plants, People, and Culture (1996, 2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | New York Botanical Garden |
| Thesis | The biology and economics of the Oenocarpus-Jessenia (Palmae) complex (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Evans Schultes |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Balick |
Michael Jeffrey Balick (born 1952) is an American ethnobotanist, economic botanist, and pharmacognosist, known as a leading expert on medicinal and toxic plants, biocultural conservation and the plant family Arecaceae (palms).