Carolus Bixler Heiser

Carolus Bixler Heiser

Res apud Vicidata repertae:

Nativitas: 5 Octobris 1920; Cynthiana
Obitus: 11 Iunii 2010;
Patria: Civitates Foederatae Americae

Officium

Munus: botanista, professor, curator, botanical collector

Memoria

Laurae: Asa Gray Award, Guggenheim Fellowship

Carolus Bixler Heiser, vulgo saepius Charles B. Heiser Jr. (Cynthianae in Indiana die 5 Octobris 1920 natus; mortuus die 1 Iunii 2010) fuit botanista.

Discipulus fuit Roberti Everard Woodson et Edgari Anderson apud universitatem Washingtonianam in urbe Sancti Ludovici; deinde Georgii Ledyard Stebbins in universitate Californiensi Berkeleiensi. Professor meruit apud universitatem Indianensem. De plantis utilibus Americae, praesertim de familia cucurbitacearum, de genere Capsico, de speciebus Heliantho annuo, Solano quitoensi, Schoenoplecto californico operam dedit. Inter discipulos eius fuerunt Gulielmus Hardy Eshbaugh et Barbara Pickersgill.

Scripta selecta

• 1951 : "The Sunflower among the North American Indians" in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society vol. 95: (1951) pp. 432–448 JSTOR
• 1951 : "Hybridization in the annual sunflowers: Helianthus annuus x H. debilis var. cucumerifolius" in Evolution vol. 5 (1951) pp. 42-51
• 1958 (cum Paul G. Smith) : "New Species of Capsicum from South America" in Brittonia vol. 10 pp. 194-201 JSTOR
• 1972 : "Student Days with Edgar Anderson, or how I came to study sunflowers" in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden vol. 59 (1972) pp. 362-372
• 1984 : "The Ethnobotany of the Neotropical Solanaceae" in Advances in Economic Botany vol. 1: Ethnobotany in the Neotropics (1984) pp. 48-52 JSTOR
• 1990 : Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food. W. H. Freeman.
• 2008 : "The Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) in Mexico: further evidence for a North American domestication" in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution vol. 55 (2008) pp. 9-13 Epitome

Bibliographia

• Amal Naj, Peppers: a story of hot pursuits (Novi Eboraci: Knopf, 1992) pp. 72-77 Exemplar mutuabile
• Barbara Pickersgill, Gregory J. Anderson, "Travels with Charley—sunflowers and beyond: an appreciation of the life and work of Charles B. Heiser, Jr. (1920-2010)" in Economic Botany vol. 64 (2010) pp. 281-286 JSTOR
• Barbara Pickersgill, Gregory J. Anderson, Charles Bixler Heiser Jr., 1920-2010. Vasingtoniae: National Academy of Sciences, 2011

Nexus interni

• Categoria:Taxa Heiser

Nexus externi

Lexica biographica:  • IPNI