Word: rolla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor of Biology Rolla M. Tryon and his wife, Lecturer in Biology Alice F. Tryon-two of the world's experts on the fern-individual research on the fuzzy, apparently harmless plant created a husband-wife team which has gone on to make pioneer advances in understanding the dual-natured fern...
Hoping to pique her botanical interest, she approached Rolla Tryon, then a post-doctoral student, who advised her to study ferns instead...
After Alice got involved. I become more interested in it," Rolla Tryon jokes...
...similar case land in Peru cleared for tea crops immediately fell victim to the green menace, Rolla Tryon says. During World War 11, he adds, the ubiquitous bracken quickly sprang up in bomb craters throughout England...
...While Rolla Tryon is the professor. Alice has not been content to play second fiddle. Aside from her pioneer work in fern-spore research, she has set precedents-initially by becoming the first woman member of New England's foremost association of botanists-the New England Botanists Club, then by becoming, in 1978, its first woman president...