Bernice Giduz Schubert facts for kids
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Bernice Giduz Schubert
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| Born | 6 October 1913  Boston |
| Died | 14 August 2000 (aged 86) |
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Bernice Giduz Schubert (born October 6, 1913 – died August 14, 2000) was an American botanist. Botanists are scientists who study plants. She worked for 53 years as a professor and a herbarium curator at Harvard University. A herbarium is like a library for dried plant samples.
Bernice Schubert traveled a lot to collect plants. She went on many trips in Mexico and the United States.
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Early Life and Education
Bernice Giduz Schubert was born in 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts. She loved learning about plants from a young age.
She went to college at the Massachusetts College of Agriculture. She earned her first degree there in 1935. Later, she continued her studies at Radcliffe College. She received her master's degree in 1937 and her Ph.D. (doctorate) in 1941.
A Career in Botany
Dr. Schubert started her career at the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University. This is a very important place for plant research. She helped a famous botanist named Merritt Fernald. Together, they worked on two important books about plants.
One book was Gray's Manual of Botany (published in 1951). The other was Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (published in 1958). These books helped people identify plants.
Working with African Plants
In 1949, Dr. Schubert received a special award called a Guggenheim Fellowship. This award allowed her to travel to Belgium. There, she studied African plants. This was an important part of her research.
Return to America
After her time in Belgium, Dr. Schubert came back to the United States in 1952. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture. Her job was to classify plants from Central America. She looked for plants that might have medical uses.
In 1962, she became an associate curator at the Arnold Arboretum. This is a famous tree and shrub research center at Harvard. She edited a science journal there. She also taught classes to college students and advised them on their plant studies. Dr. Schubert retired from Harvard in 1984.
Honors and Awards
- 1949: Guggenheim Fellowship
See also
In Spanish: Bernice Giduz Schubert para niños
