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Dan
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France A. Córdova
William
H. Danforth
Brady J.
Deaton
Hugh Grant
Richard
Herman
David W.
Kemper
Alex F.
McCalla
John
F. McDonnell
Philip
Needleman
Peter H.
Raven
Alfonso
Romo Garza
P. Roy
Vagelos
Robert L.
Virgil
Mark S.
Wrighton
Usha
Barwale Zehr
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Board of Trustees
Peter H. Raven, Ph.D.
Director
Missouri Botanical Garden
Peter H. Raven is Director of
the Missouri Botanical Garden
and Engelmann Professor of
Botany at Washington University
in St. Louis. He is a native of
California and received his
Ph.D. from the University of
California, Los Angeles in 1960,
after completing his
undergraduate work at the
University of California,
Berkeley. He holds honorary
degrees from several
universities, including the
University of Massachusetts and
Goteberg, Sweden, as well as
Rutgers, Leiden and Washington
Universities. Dr. Raven is Home
Secretary of the National
Academy of Sciences, Chairman of
the Report Review Committee of
the National Research Council
and a member of the President's
Committee of Advisors on Science
and Technology.
In 1986, he received the
International Prize for Biology
from the government of Japan, in
1990 shared with E.O. Wilson the
Prize of the Institut de la Vie
in Paris, in 1992 shared with
Norman Myers the Volvo
Environment Prize in Sweden, in
1994 shared with Arturo Gomez-Pompa
the Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement, and
in 1995 shared with
Canaganayagan Suriyakumaran and
Norman Myers the Saskawa
Environment Prize. From 1985 to
1990 he was a John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation Fellow. He is a
member of the American
Philosophical Society, and he
has served as a member of the
Board of Curators of the
University of Missouri and a
member of the National Science
Board.
Before coming to St. Louis in
1971, Dr. Raven was a member of
the Department of Biological
Sciences at Stanford University.
He spent the academic year
1969-1970 in New Zealand as a
Guggenheim fellow. He is a past
president of a number of groups,
including the American Institute
of Biological Sciences, the
Organization for Tropical
Studies, and the Botanical
Society of America, served as
Chairman of the National Museum
Services Board, and Chairman of
the National Research Council
Committee on the National
Biological Survey. In addition,
Dr. Raven is a member of the
Committee on Research and
Exploration of the National
Geographic Society, Co-chair of
the Editorial Committee of the
Flora of China project, and
Chairman of the U.S. Civilian
Research and Development
Foundation for the Independent
States of the Former Soviet
Union. He is the author and
editor of 18 books, including
textbooks in biology and botany,
and more than 450 scientific
papers.
Since moving to St. Louis, Dr.
Raven has been concerned with
the development of the Garden's
research program in tropical
botany, which has become one of
the most active in the world. In
addition, he has continued his
work with graduate students and
his research on Onagraceae. He
is active in efforts to enhance
public awareness of the
ecological crisis in the
tropics, and the need for
preservation of animals and
plants throughout the world.
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