Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist, Academic
1817 – 1911
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Who was Joseph Dalton Hooker?
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1817
Halesworth - Also known as
- Hook.f.
- D. J Hooker
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Lived in
- Suffolk
- Died
- Dec 10, 1911
Sunningdale - Resting place
- The Parish Church of Saint Anne
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on July 23, 2013
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