Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career ran in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the 20th century. Many of his clients were industrialists, among them the Ahlström-Gullichsen family, who became his patrons. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.
Aalto is a Finnish surname meaning "wave". Notable people with the surname include:
Aino Marjatta Henssen, was a German lichenologist and systematist. Her father, Gottfried Henssen, was a folklorist and her mother was Finnish.
Eula Whitehouse (1892–1974) was an American botanist, botanical illustrator, and plant collector known for gathering specimens from Africa, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, India, Singapore, Fiji, and Mexico.
Ida Panovna Mandenova was a Soviet/Georgian botanist and taxonomist noted for studying and describing Heracleum. She described at least 90 plants. The standard author abbreviation Manden. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Dr. Daniela Cristina Zappi (1965-) is a Brazilian botanist, plant collector, and research scientist at the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew noted for studying and describing Neotropical flora, Rubiaceae, and Cactaceae. She has described over 90 species. The standard author abbreviation Zappi is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Ana Maria Giulietti Harley is a Brazilian biochemist, botanist, and educator known for researching Eriocaulaceae, as well as her work at the University of São Paulo, State University of Feira de Santana, and Vale Institute of Technology. She has described over 70 species and gathered over 300 specimens. She was the 2013 recipient of the José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany. The standard author abbreviation Giul. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Marie Laure Tardieu-Blot was a French pteridologist who worked at the National Museum of Natural History (France) and is noted for describing over 400 species. The genus of ferns Blotiella was named in her honor. She was married to the author Jean Tardieu. The standard author abbreviation Tardieu is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. She was appointed director of the medical analysis laboratory of the Hanoi hospital in 1928. She joined the phanerogamy laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History in 1932, the same year she became a member of the Botanical Society of France. She was appointed deputy director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in 1964. She became director of the laboratory of tropical phanerogamic botany in 1967. She was finally named honorary director in 1971.
Yevgenia Georgievna Pobedimova (1898-1973) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant collector noted for describing over 270 species in Russia, Ukraine and North Asia.
Sofya Georgiyevna Tamamshyan (1901–1981) was a Russian-Soviet botanist and plant taxonomist noted for describing 7 genera and more than 50 species, and for authoring over 120 works. The standard author abbreviation Tamamsch. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Delia Abbiatti is an Argentinian botanist and pteridologist, noted for studying Eriocaulaceae, Loranthaceae, Thelypteris, and Cyclosorus. The species Perezia abbiattii and Thelypteris abbiattii were named in her honor. The standard author abbreviation Abbiatti is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Dr. Tatiana Vladimirovna Egorova (1930–2007) was a Russian botanist and author noted for working at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden and for editing the multi-volume Plants of Central Asia series. She described over 170 species, most in the genus Carex. The standard author abbreviation T.V.Egorova is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Dierdré "Dee" Anne Snijman is a South African botanist and plant taxonomist who is notable for studying and writing extensively on bulbs. She has described over 120 species and has written comprehensive works on South African flora. She received the 1997 Herbert Medal from the International Bulb Society for her research on Amaryllis.
Helga Dietrich (1940–2018) was a German orchidologist and author who is noted for her comprehensive guides to literature on orchids, and for her work as curator of the Botanischer Garten Jena. She described over eighty species of orchids, many from Cuba. The standard author abbreviation H.Dietr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. She was a 2012 recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Dietrich studied biology at the University of Jena from 1959 and graduated in 1964 with a diploma on the topic The Pollen Morphology of the Plantaginaceae. Afterwards she was a research assistant at the Institute of Special Botany/Botanical Garden of the University. After receiving her doctorate in 1975, she was appointed curator of the Jena Botanical Garden. Her dissertation was on the subject of On the Trait Inventory of the Plantaginaceae and its Significance for Systematics. In 1980 she received the teaching qualification, between 1989 and 1994 she completed a PhD-B procedure, which was recognized as habilitation a short time later. From 1994 to 2006 she was a lecturer at the Institute of Special Botany, since April 2006 she was a lecturer there.
Alma Theodora Lee was an Australian botanist and plant taxonomist who worked at the National Herbarium of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and CSIRO. She is notable for raising the standard of systematic botany in Australia, and for her revisions of Swainsona and Typha. She also studied the Fabaceae with colleagues. The standard author abbreviation A.T.Lee is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. She described over 40 species. The March 1991 issue of the journal Telopea was dedicated to her memory.
Winsome Fanny Barker was a South African botanist and plant collector noted for her work as Curator building the collection at the herbarium of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, as well as her research on Amaryllidaceae, Liliaceae and Haemodoraceae.
Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg was a Swiss naturalist, botanist, taxonomist, and teacher noted for her work at the Institute for Systematic Botany at the University of Zurich, in particular her work classifying the genus Festuca. She described over 120 species, and the grass Festuca markgrafiae was named in her honor. The standard author abbreviation Markgr.-Dann. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Annelis Schreiber (1927–2010) was a German botanist, lichenologist, and author who worked at the Botanische Staatssammlung München. She is noted her research on the plants of South West Africa, as well as her work with Gustav Hegi and Karl Heinz Rechinger in writing Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa, a comprehensive flora of Central Europe. She described over 20 species. The standard author abbreviation A.Schreib. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Iris Sheila Collenette was a British botanist, plant collector, and author noted for her work on the flora of Saudi Arabia, particularly her books An illustrated guide to the flowers of Saudi Arabia and Wildflowers of Saudi Arabia. The species Aloe sheilae and Rhytidocaulon sheilae were named in her honor. She collected the holotype of Hypericum collenetteae, named by Norman Robson. She identified at least fourteen species. The standard author abbreviation Collen. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Dr. Lucinda A. McDade is an American botanist and plant collector who is noted for her study of Acanthaceae and her work in conservation biology. She received her B.S. in Biology from Newcomb College of Tulane University, and her Ph.D. in Botany/Zoology from Duke University.
