About Florence Hedges
Lived 1878 – 1956 (aged 78). Florence Hedges was an American translator, botanist, phytopathologist and mycologist, known for Botany and Plant pathology.
Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956 ) was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry.
Life and career Hedges was born in Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.
With Erwin Frink Smith, she also translated the 1896 biography of Louis Pasteur by Émile Duclaux.
She died in San Francisco, California.
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American botanist (1878-1956)
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Florence Hedges was born on 24 August 1878 in Lansing.
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Florence Hedges died on 17 December 1956 in San Francisco.
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Florence Hedges was a translator, botanist, phytopathologist and mycologist.
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Florence Hedges was known for Botany and Plant pathology.
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