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Fisher Professor of Natural History Emeritus Paul C. Mangelsdorf, a prominent botanist and the former head of Harvard's Botanical Museum, died in his sleep on July 22. He was 90 years...
...Mangelsdorf was known internationally for his research on the origins and breeding of corn. The inexpensive seed corn he developed is used widely now in the American Southwest and Latin America...
...work was very important in practical terms and in theoretical terms," said Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig, who worked with Mangelsdorf and who briefly held a chair endowed in the botanist's name...
...Mangelsdorf joined the Harvard faculty in 1940 as a professor of economic botany, a post he held for 22 years before his appointment to the Fisher chair. From 1945 to 1967, he directed Harvard's Botanical Museum...
There are actually three species of marijuana, but laws in the United States only designate one of these species--cannabis sativa--as an illegal plant. The other two species--one of which is psychoactive--are not technically illegal, Richard E. Schultes '37, Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, said last night...