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Robert Folger Thorne

January 01, 1970

Robert F. Thorne (July 13, 1920 – March 24, 2015) was an American botanist. He was taxonomist and curator emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. His research has contributed to the understanding of the evolution of flowering plants.[1][2]

Robert Folger Thorne
BornJuly 13, 1920
Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedMarch 24, 2015(2015-03-24) (aged 94)
California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationDartmouth College (BA)
Cornell University (MS, PhD)
Spouse
Mae Zukel
​
(m. 1947)​
AwardsAsa Gray Award
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont Graduate University
Author abbrev. (botany)Thorne

Life edit

Thorne was born on July 13, 1920, in Spring Lake, New Jersey. He was educated through high school in Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Florida.[3] He graduated summa cum laude in 1941 with a major in botany from Dartmouth College and earned a M.S. degree in economic botany in 1942 at Cornell University.[4] He spent about three years serving in the armed forces during World War II, first at Hondo Navigation School, Texas, graduating as a second lieutenant in aerial navigation in 1943. Then, after 7 months in Italy in 1944 as a B-24 bomber navigator with 40 missions over eastern and southern Europe, he served as an instructor and as an examinations officer at Ellington Field, Texas, from 1944 to 1945.[5]

After serving in the armed forces, he earned his Ph.D. in economic botany at Cornell University in 1949, studying under professors Walter Muenscher and Arthur Eames.[4] While at Cornell, he met and married Mae Zukel in 1947.[4] Bob Thorne died on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at the age of 94.[6]

Work edit

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden edit

Thorne was the assistant professor of botany at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, from 1949 to 1953, associate professor from 1954 to 1960, and professor from 1961 to 1962. He was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Lake Itasca Biological Station in the summer of 1962 before moving to California, where he became taxonomist and curator for Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor for Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) in Claremont, California. He became taxonomist and curator emeritus as well as professor emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate School in 1987. He also became curator emeritus of the Pomona College Herbarium in Claremont, California, from 1990 to the present.[5]

Other appointments include: Field Botanist, U.S. Public Health Service, Georgia, Summer 1946. Botany Assistant, 1945–1947; Instructor in Botany, 1948–1949; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Summer 1956.[5]

Thorne became a Fulbright Research Scholar in 1959 and spent his time as a National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and studying the plant communities of New Caledonia, Australia, and New Guinea.[4] When he moved to California in 1962, he quickly learned the flora of California, which led him to write the essay entitled "The vascular plant communities of California" in 1976.[4] According to Systematic Botany, Thorne has advocated for "the conservation of California's endangered natural environments; his advocacy and leadership helped result in the conservation of Santa Catalina Island’s biota."[4]

Thorne gained an international reputation through "his contributions to our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants... and that has culminated recently in two... publications, one outlining his classifications of monocots (Thorne 2000) and the other on the dicotyledons (Thorne 2001)."[4] Thorne was a guide and teacher for the many staff, students, researchers, and visitors of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden through the years. Among his projects was completing "floristic works on both the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains," a study of the flora of Sierra San Pedro Martir, and a checklist for the entire Baja peninsula.[4]

Thorne system edit

Main article: Thorne system

Among Thorne's many accomplishments was a system of plant taxonomy known as the Thorne system, first issued in 1968,[7] and periodically revised from 1976[8] onwards (1977,[9] 1983,[10] 1992,[11][12] 1999,[13] 2007[14]).

Fellowships and awards edit

Special recognition edit

  • 1996. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada. For botanical contributions in Baja California
  • 1998. Santa Catalina Island Conservancy. For botanical contributions to Santa Catalina Island
  • 1999. Southern California Botanists. For botanical contributions in California
  • 1999. Southern California Botanists. Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2000. University Club of Claremont, California
  • 2001. American Society of Plant Taxonomists. Asa Gray Award for outstanding contributions in systematic botany
  • 2003. Third International Conference of the Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons. Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2005. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. Dedication honoring lifetime achievements as systematist and conservationist
  • 2006. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. California Glory Award acknowledging outstanding contributions toward understanding and preservation of California's native flora
  • 2006. Botanical Society of America. Centennial Award for exemplary services to the plant sciences[5]

Professional service edit

Active via elective and appointed offices in service to several professional societies:[15]

  • President, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 1968.
  • Secretary, Botanical Society of America, ca. 1958.
  • President, Southern California Botanists, ca. 1966.
  • Second vice-president, California Botanical Society, ca. 1966.
  • National treasurer, Gamma Alpha scientific fraternity, 1954–1957.
  • Chairman, advisory council of Flora North America Project, which found the project feasible.
  • On the editorial boards of several national botanical journals; international journal Taiwania.
  • Reviewer of manuscripts for various botanical journals and university presses.

Selected publications edit

  • Thorne, R.F. (1968). "Synopsis of a putative phylogenetic classification of flowering plants". Aliso. 6 (4): 57–66. doi:10.5642/aliso.19680604.06.
  • Thorne, Robert F (1976). "A Phylogenetic Classification of the Angiospermae". Evolutionary Biology. Vol. 9. pp. 35–106. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-6950-3_2. ISBN 978-1-4615-6952-7. PMC 2645363. PMID 19208237. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  • Thorne, Robert F (1977). "Some Realignments in the Angiospermae". In Kubitzki, Klaus (ed.). Flowering Plants: Evolution and Classification of Higher Categories Symposium, Hamburg, September 8–12, 1976. Plant Systematics and Evolution. Vol. Supplement 1. Vienna: Springer. pp. 299–319. doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-7076-2_19. ISBN 978-3-211-81434-5.
  • Thorne, Robert F. (February 1983). "Proposed new realignments in the angiosperms". Nordic Journal of Botany. 3 (1): 85–117. doi:10.1111/j.1756-1051.1983.tb01447.x.
  • 1986. Thorne, R. F. Antarctic elements in Australasian rainforests. Telopea 2(6): 611–617.[15]
  • Thorne, Robert F (1992a). "Classification and geography of flowering plants". Botanical Review. 58 (3): 225–348. doi:10.1007/BF02858611. JSTOR 4354190. S2CID 40348158.
  • Thorne, Robert F (1992b). "An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants". Aliso. 13 (2): 365–389. doi:10.5642/aliso.19921302.08.
  • 1994. Krantz, T. P. and R. F. Thorne. An annotated flora of the vascular plants of the San Bernardino Mountains. (Appendix I: Krantz. A phytogeography of the San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. 1994)[16]
  • 1995. Thorne, R. F. Vascular plants of Fort DeSoto Park, Pinellas County, Florida. Selbyana 16(1): 100–109.
  • 1999. Thorne, R. F. Eastern Asia as a living museum for archaic angiosperms and other seed plants. Taiwania 44(4): 413–422.
  • 2000. Thorne, R. F. The classification and geography of the monocotyledon subclasses Alismatidae, Liliidae and Commelinidae, pp. 75–124. In B. Nordenstam, G. E-Ghazaly, and M. Kassas [eds.], Plant Systematics for the 21st Century. Portland Press, London, UK.
  • 2001. Thorne, R. F. The classification and geography of the flowering plants: dicotyledons of the class Angiospermae (subclasses Magnoliidae, Ranunculidae, Caryophyllidae, Dilleniidae, Rosidae, Asteridae, and Lamiidae). Botanical Revue 66(4): 44l–647.
  • 2002. Thorne, R. F. How many species of seed plants are there? Taxon 51: 511–512.
  • 2006. Thorne, R. F. A bibliography of floristics in southern California: addendum number 2A. Crossosoma 31(2), Fall–Winter 2005 (issued 2006).
  • Thorne, Robert F.; Reveal, James L. (April 2007). "An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae")". The Botanical Review. 73 (2): 67–181. doi:10.1663/0006-8101(2007)73[67:AUCOTC]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 24415895.
  • 2007. Thorne, R. F. et al. Transmontane coniferous vegetation, pp. 575–586. In M. G. Barbour. T. Keeler.-Wolf and A. A. Schoenherr [eds.], Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd ed., University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
  • 2010. Thorne, R. F, R. V. Moran and R. A. Minnich. 2010. Vascular plants of the high Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico: an annotated checklist. Aliso (28): 1–57.
The standard author abbreviation Thorne is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[17]

References edit

  1. ^ . Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany. 33 (1). 2015. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ . The American Society of Plant Taxonomist. Archived from the original on 18 April 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  3. ^ Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library. "Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905-1988" (2009), p. 1.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Hamilton, Clement W. "Robert F. Thorne - Recipient of the 2001 Asa Gray Award", Systematic Botany(2002), 27(1): p. 2.
  5. ^ a b c d e Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library. "Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905-1988" (2009), p. 2.
  6. ^ . Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
  7. ^ Thorne 1968.
  8. ^ Thorne 1976.
  9. ^ Thorne 1977.
  10. ^ Thorne 1983.
  11. ^ Thorne 1992a.
  12. ^ Thorne 1992b.
  13. ^ Reveal 1999a.
  14. ^ Thorne & Reveal 2007.
  15. ^ a b Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library. "Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905-1988" (2009), p. 3.
  16. ^ Robert F Thorne.A Bibliography of Floristics in Southern California. 2. Literature pertinent to local areas
  17. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Thorne.

Bibliography edit

  • Reveal, James L (29 March 1999a). "An updated classification of the Monocotyledoneae by Robert F Thorne". Plant Biology. University of Maryland: Norton-Brown Herbarium. Retrieved 4 January 2016.

January 01, 1970
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Robert F Thorne July 13 1920 March 24 2015 was an American botanist He was taxonomist and curator emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont California His research has contributed to the understanding of the evolution of flowering plants 1 2 Robert Folger ThorneBornJuly 13 1920Spring Lake New Jersey U S DiedMarch 24 2015 2015 03 24 aged 94 California U S NationalityAmericanEducationDartmouth College BA Cornell University MS PhD SpouseMae Zukel m 1947 wbr AwardsAsa Gray AwardScientific careerFieldsBotanyInstitutionsRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Claremont Graduate UniversityAuthor abbrev botany Thorne Contents 1 Life 2 Work 2 1 Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 2 2 Thorne system 2 3 Fellowships and awards 2 4 Special recognition 2 5 Professional service 3 Selected publications 4 References 5 BibliographyLife editThorne was born on July 13 1920 in Spring Lake New Jersey He was educated through high school in Gulfport and St Petersburg Florida 3 He graduated summa cum laude in 1941 with a major in botany from Dartmouth College and earned a M S degree in economic botany in 1942 at Cornell University 4 He spent about three years serving in the armed forces during World War II first at Hondo Navigation School Texas graduating as a second lieutenant in aerial navigation in 1943 Then after 7 months in Italy in 1944 as a B 24 bomber navigator with 40 missions over eastern and southern Europe he served as an instructor and as an examinations officer at Ellington Field Texas from 1944 to 1945 5 After serving in the armed forces he earned his Ph D in economic botany at Cornell University in 1949 studying under professors Walter Muenscher and Arthur Eames 4 While at Cornell he met and married Mae Zukel in 1947 4 Bob Thorne died on Tuesday March 24 2015 at the age of 94 6 Work editRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden edit Thorne was the assistant professor of botany at the University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa from 1949 to 1953 associate professor from 1954 to 1960 and professor from 1961 to 1962 He was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota Lake Itasca Biological Station in the summer of 1962 before moving to California where he became taxonomist and curator for Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor for Claremont Graduate School now Claremont Graduate University in Claremont California He became taxonomist and curator emeritus as well as professor emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate School in 1987 He also became curator emeritus of the Pomona College Herbarium in Claremont California from 1990 to the present 5 Other appointments include Field Botanist U S Public Health Service Georgia Summer 1946 Botany Assistant 1945 1947 Instructor in Botany 1948 1949 Cornell University Ithaca New York Visiting Associate Professor University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station Summer 1956 5 Thorne became a Fulbright Research Scholar in 1959 and spent his time as a National Science Foundation senior postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland Brisbane Australia and studying the plant communities of New Caledonia Australia and New Guinea 4 When he moved to California in 1962 he quickly learned the flora of California which led him to write the essay entitled The vascular plant communities of California in 1976 4 According to Systematic Botany Thorne has advocated for the conservation of California s endangered natural environments his advocacy and leadership helped result in the conservation of Santa Catalina Island s biota 4 Thorne gained an international reputation through his contributions to our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants and that has culminated recently in two publications one outlining his classifications of monocots Thorne 2000 and the other on the dicotyledons Thorne 2001 4 Thorne was a guide and teacher for the many staff students researchers and visitors of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden through the years Among his projects was completing floristic works on both the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains a study of the flora of Sierra San Pedro Martir and a checklist for the entire Baja peninsula 4 Thorne system edit Main article Thorne system Among Thorne s many accomplishments was a system of plant taxonomy known as the Thorne system first issued in 1968 7 and periodically revised from 1976 8 onwards 1977 9 1983 10 1992 11 12 1999 13 2007 14 Fellowships and awards edit Cramer Fellow Dartmouth College to attend Cornell University 1941 declined a second Cramer Fellowship in order to enter Army Air Forces Research Associate Professor University of Iowa 1957 Fulbright Research Scholar University of Queensland Brisbane Australia 1959 1960 renewed once National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow University of Queensland Brisbane Australia Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and British Museum Natural History London England 1960 Elected Foreign Member Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1986 present Merit Award American Botanical Society 1996 Madrono Volume 45 1999 Dedicated to Robert F Thorne 5 Special recognition edit 1996 Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Ensenada For botanical contributions in Baja California 1998 Santa Catalina Island Conservancy For botanical contributions to Santa Catalina Island 1999 Southern California Botanists For botanical contributions in California 1999 Southern California Botanists Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 University Club of Claremont California 2001 American Society of Plant Taxonomists Asa Gray Award for outstanding contributions in systematic botany 2003 Third International Conference of the Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons Lifetime Achievement Award 2005 Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Dedication honoring lifetime achievements as systematist and conservationist 2006 Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden California Glory Award acknowledging outstanding contributions toward understanding and preservation of California s native flora 2006 Botanical Society of America Centennial Award for exemplary services to the plant sciences 5 Professional service edit Active via elective and appointed offices in service to several professional societies 15 President American Society of Plant Taxonomists 1968 Secretary Botanical Society of America ca 1958 President Southern California Botanists ca 1966 Second vice president California Botanical Society ca 1966 National treasurer Gamma Alpha scientific fraternity 1954 1957 Chairman advisory council of Flora North America Project which found the project feasible On the editorial boards of several national botanical journals international journal Taiwania Reviewer of manuscripts for various botanical journals and university presses Selected publications editThorne R F 1968 Synopsis of a putative phylogenetic classification of flowering plants Aliso 6 4 57 66 doi 10 5642 aliso 19680604 06 Thorne Robert F 1976 A Phylogenetic Classification of the Angiospermae Evolutionary Biology Vol 9 pp 35 106 doi 10 1007 978 1 4615 6950 3 2 ISBN 978 1 4615 6952 7 PMC 2645363 PMID 19208237 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a journal ignored help Thorne Robert F 1977 Some Realignments in the Angiospermae In Kubitzki Klaus ed Flowering Plants Evolution and Classification of Higher Categories Symposium Hamburg September 8 12 1976 Plant Systematics and Evolution Vol Supplement 1 Vienna Springer pp 299 319 doi 10 1007 978 3 7091 7076 2 19 ISBN 978 3 211 81434 5 Thorne Robert F February 1983 Proposed new realignments in the angiosperms Nordic Journal of Botany 3 1 85 117 doi 10 1111 j 1756 1051 1983 tb01447 x 1986 Thorne R F Antarctic elements in Australasian rainforests Telopea 2 6 611 617 15 Thorne Robert F 1992a Classification and geography of flowering plants Botanical Review 58 3 225 348 doi 10 1007 BF02858611 JSTOR 4354190 S2CID 40348158 Thorne Robert F 1992b An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants Aliso 13 2 365 389 doi 10 5642 aliso 19921302 08 1994 Krantz T P and R F Thorne An annotated flora of the vascular plants of the San Bernardino Mountains Appendix I Krantz A phytogeography of the San Bernardino Mountains San Bernardino County California Ph D Thesis Univ of Calif Berkeley 1994 16 1995 Thorne R F Vascular plants of Fort DeSoto Park Pinellas County Florida Selbyana 16 1 100 109 1999 Thorne R F Eastern Asia as a living museum for archaic angiosperms and other seed plants Taiwania 44 4 413 422 2000 Thorne R F The classification and geography of the monocotyledon subclasses Alismatidae Liliidae and Commelinidae pp 75 124 In B Nordenstam G E Ghazaly and M Kassas eds Plant Systematics for the 21st Century Portland Press London UK 2001 Thorne R F The classification and geography of the flowering plants dicotyledons of the class Angiospermae subclasses Magnoliidae Ranunculidae Caryophyllidae Dilleniidae Rosidae Asteridae and Lamiidae Botanical Revue 66 4 44l 647 2002 Thorne R F How many species of seed plants are there Taxon 51 511 512 2006 Thorne R F A bibliography of floristics in southern California addendum number 2A Crossosoma 31 2 Fall Winter 2005 issued 2006 Thorne Robert F Reveal James L April 2007 An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida Angiospermae The Botanical Review 73 2 67 181 doi 10 1663 0006 8101 2007 73 67 AUCOTC 2 0 CO 2 S2CID 24415895 2007 Thorne R F et al Transmontane coniferous vegetation pp 575 586 In M G Barbour T Keeler Wolf and A A Schoenherr eds Terrestrial Vegetation of California 3rd ed University of California Press Berkeley CA 2010 Thorne R F R V Moran and R A Minnich 2010 Vascular plants of the high Sierra San Pedro Martir Baja California Mexico an annotated checklist Aliso 28 1 57 The standard author abbreviation Thorne is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name 17 References edit Obituary for Robert F Thorne Aliso A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany 33 1 2015 Archived from the original on 21 September 2017 Retrieved 17 November 2017 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link In Memoriam R F Thorne Apr 13 Robert Folger Thorne 1920 2015 The American Society of Plant Taxonomist Archived from the original on 18 April 2015 Retrieved 11 June 2015 Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905 1988 2009 p 1 a b c d e f g h Hamilton Clement W Robert F Thorne Recipient of the 2001 Asa Gray Award Systematic Botany 2002 27 1 p 2 a b c d e Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905 1988 2009 p 2 In Memory of Robert Folger Bob Thorne Archived from the original on 2015 06 26 Retrieved 2015 06 26 Thorne 1968 Thorne 1976 Thorne 1977 Thorne 1983 Thorne 1992a Thorne 1992b Reveal 1999a Thorne amp Reveal 2007 a b Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905 1988 2009 p 3 Robert F Thorne A Bibliography of Floristics in Southern California 2 Literature pertinent to local areas International Plant Names Index Thorne Bibliography editReveal James L 29 March 1999a An updated classification of the Monocotyledoneae by Robert F Thorne Plant Biology University of Maryland Norton Brown Herbarium Retrieved 4 January 2016 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Robert Folger Thorne amp oldid 1194115578, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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