Richard Evans Schultes
Academic
1915 – 2001
Who was Richard Evans Schultes?
Richard Evans Schultes was a biologist and may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of indigenous peoples' uses of plants, including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants, for his lifelong collaborations with chemists, and for his charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University on a number of students and colleagues who went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums, botanical gardens, and popular culture.
His book The Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, co-authored with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it has never been out of print and was revised into an expanded second edition, based on a German translation by Christian Rätsch, in 2001.
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- Born
- Jan 12, 1915
Boston - Also known as
- Richard Schultes
- Richard E. Schultes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Botany
( - 1941)
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Cambridge
- Cambridge
- Waltham
( - 2001/04/10)
- Died
- Apr 10, 2001
Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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