Rogers McVaugh

Rogers McVaugh
Born (1909-05-30)May 30, 1909
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died September 24, 2009(2009-09-24) (aged 100)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Fields Botany
Alma mater Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania

Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 September 24, 2009)[1] was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.[1] The plant genus Mcvaughia was named in his honor in 1979.[2]

Biography

Born in New York City, Rogers McVaugh was a brilliant student. He earned the bachelor's degree with highest honors in botany from Swarthmore College in 1931 and a Ph.D in botany from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935.[1]

McVaugh's first published paper is Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora, published in 1935. His final publication was Marcus E. Jones in Mexico, 1892, published in 2005.[1]

Writings

McVaugh's last, partially completed work was the Flora Novo-Galiciana, a multi-volume work focusing on the diverse flora of a region in western Mexico. In 1984, he was awarded the Botanical Society of America’s Henry Allan Gleason Award for his work on this project.[1]

McVaugh published about 12 books and 200 shorter articles in history of botany, floristics and systematic botany, including Recent Changes in the Composition of a Local Flora . Among his contributions was a biography of the 19th-century naturalist Edward Palmer.[3]

Family

In 1937 Rogers McVaugh married Ruth Beall, who died in 1987. His two children are Michael Rogers McVaugh and Jenifer Beall McVaugh.[1]

Centenary & death

On May 30, 2009 he celebrated his 100th birthday.[4] He died, aged 100, on September 24, 2009.

Career

Honors

References

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