About Yojiro Kimura
Lived 1912 – 2006 (aged 93). Yojiro Kimura was a Japanese botanist and historian of science.
was a Japanese botanist, known for his classification of monocotyledons, and of Japanese species of Hypericum.
Selected publications Kimura, Y. 1953. The system and phylogenetic tree of plants. J. Jpn. Bot. 28: 97–104. Kimura, Y. 1956. Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones. Notulae Systematicae, Herbier du Muséum de Paris 15:137–159. Kimura, Y. "Shokubutsu bunrui taikei no rekishi" [The History of Botanical Classification Systems] in "Seibutsugakushi ronshu" [Essays on The History of Biology]), (Yasaka Shobo, 1987). Kimura, Y. "Natsurarisuto no keifu", (Chuou Kouron Sha, Inc., 1983)
Legacy Yojiro Kimura is the authority for 58 taxa, such as Hypericum hayatae Y.Kimura
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Who was Yojiro Kimura?
Japanese botanist (1912-2006)
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Yojiro Kimura was born on 31 July 1912 in Yamaguchi.
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Yojiro Kimura died on 3 April 2006.
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Yojiro Kimura was a botanist and historian of science.
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Yojiro Kimura was Japanese.
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