Bernard Verdcourt

Bernard Verdcourt (20 January 1925 25 October 2011) was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. [1] Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years. Although his best-known work probably consists of his many studies of the East African flora, he has also made extensive contributions relating to African terrestrial mollusks and to entomology. Dr. Verdcourt received the Linnean Medal for botany from the Linnean Society of London in 2000.[2][3][4] His list of publications includes more than 1,000 scientific works.[2] The standard author abbreviation Verdc. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Bernard Verdcourt
Born(1925-01-20)20 January 1925
Luton, England
Died25 October 2011(2011-10-25) (aged 86)
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Taxonomy

Selected major works

References

  1. Science Obituaries: Bernard Verdcourt
  2. Award to Bernard Vercourt. Kew Scientist: Apr 2000(17):4.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2008-11-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Kew Gardens
  4. http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=347 Linnean Society of London
  5. IPNI.  Verdc.
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