About Charles Hercules Boissevain
Lived 1893 – 1946 (aged 52–53). Charles Hercules Boissevain was a Dutch botanist and biochemist.
Charles Hercules Boissevain (1893–1946) was a Dutch-American tuberculosis researcher and botanist in the United States.
Biography Charles Hercules Boissevain was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on October 18, 1893, to Maria Barbera Pijnappel and Charles Ernest Henri Boissevain. His father was a businessman and politician who sat on the Amsterdam city council and was a member of parliament in the province of North Holland before and during World War I.
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Who was Charles Hercules Boissevain?
Dutch-born American botanist (1893–1946)
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Charles Hercules Boissevain was born in 1893.
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Charles Hercules Boissevain died in 1946.
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Charles Hercules Boissevain was a botanist and biochemist.
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Charles Hercules Boissevain was Dutch.
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