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Robert Folger Thorne
Dr. Robert F. Thorne (July 13, 1920 - March 24 2015) was an American botanist and currently 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aspt.net/news/2015/04/13/in-memoriam-r-f-thorne#.VXoIT_lViko )〕
==Biography==
Thorne was born on July 13, 1920 at Spring Lake, New Jersey. He was educated through high school in Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Florida.〔Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library. "Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905-1988" (2009), p. 1.〕 He graduated ''summa cum laude'' in 1941 with a major in botany from Dartmouth College and earned his M.S. degree in Economic Botany in 1942 at Cornell University.〔Hamilton, Clement W. "Robert F. Thorne - Recipient of the 2001 Asa Gray Award", ''Systematic Botany''(2002), 27(1): p. 2.〕 He spend about three years serving in the armed forces during World War II, first at Hondo Navigation School, Texas, graduating as a 2nd 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.〔Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library. "Finding Aid for the Robert Folger Thorne Papers 1905-1988" (2009), p. 2.〕
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.〔 While at Cornell, he met and married Mae Zukel in 1947.〔
Bob Thorne died on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at the age of 94.〔http://www.rsabg.org/garden-discoveries/1059-bob-thorne〕
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