Carl Skottsberg

Carl Skottsberg
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Carl Skottsberg with his wife Inga
Born
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg

(1880-12-01)1 December 1880
Karlshamn
Died14 June 1963(1963-06-14) (aged 82)
Gothenburg
Alma materUppsala University
AwardsDarwin-Wallace Medal (Silver, 1958)
Linnean Medal (1959)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany)
The standard author abbreviation Skottsb. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Salisbury, E. J. (1964). "Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg 1880-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 10: 244–256. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0015.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Skottsb.
  3. ^ Nordisk familjebok, vol. 25 (1917), col. 1180, and vol. 38 (Suppl., 1926), col. 368