# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-e-soltis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:46:13.056Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-e-soltis"
name: "Douglas E. Soltis"
slug: "douglas-e-soltis"
description: "Douglas Soltis is an American botanist who is a Distinguished Professor in the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Department of Biology at the University of Florida. His research interests are in plant evolution and phylogeny, an area in which he has published extensively together with his wife Pamela Soltis and together they were the joint awardees of the 2006 Asa Gray Award. They are the principal investigators in the Soltis laboratory, where they both hold the rank of Distinguished Professor and are contributing authors of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group."
tagline: "American botanist and evolutionary biologist (born 1953)"
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birthDate: "1953-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump