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Marion Elizabeth Cave | |
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| Born | Marion Elizabeth Stilwell February 11, 1904 Rochester, NY |
| Died | September 26, 1995 (aged 91) California |
| Alma mater | A.B. University of Colorado Boulder 1924
A.M.University of Colorado Boulder 1925 PhD University of California, Berkeley 1936 |
| Known for | Plant Microphotography, Plant embryology |
| Spouse | Roy Clinton Cave (m. 1928 – 1991) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 1952 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, Cytologist, Embryologist, Geneticist |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley 1936 – 1943
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs 1944–1945 University of California, Berkeley 1945 – 1981 |
| Thesis | Cytological and genetical investigations involving Crepis foetida, C. commutata, C. eritreensis, and C. thomsonii |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Brown Babcock |
Marion Elizabeth Cave (11 February 1904 – 26 September 1995) was an American plant embryologist and cytogeneticist. She obtained her PhD from University of California, Berkeley where she pioneered the approach to distinguish plant taxonomy using genetics. She continued this work at Berkeley as a research associate. While there, she would be the first person to count the chromosomes in algae, earn her a Guggenheim fellowship in 1952. In addition to her research, she was success at obtaining National Science Foundation funding to create a service that would annually inform how many chromosomes each plant species had to help the field of plant cytology flourish. For her contributions, Volume 33 of Madroño, a genus (Marionella) of Delesseriaceae, and a subgenus (Mscavea) of Echeandia were all dedicated to her.