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Estella Leopold

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American botanist (1927-2024)

United StatesScientistsLived 1927 to 2024 · aged 97
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Estella Bergere Leopold was an American paleobotanist and a conservationist. As a researcher in the United States Geological Survey, she aided in uncovering records of plant life from the Miocene around the Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean and from the Cenozoic era in the Rocky Mountains.

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2013Paleontological Society Medal
2010International Cosmos Prize
1993Wilbur Cross Medal

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Estella Bergere Leopold was an American paleobotanist and a conservationist. As a researcher in the United States Geological Survey, she aided in uncovering records of plant life from the Miocene around the Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean and from the Cenozoic era in the Rocky Mountains. As a professor of botany and forest sciences at the University of Washington, she directed the Quaternary Research Center, researched the forest history of the Pacific Northwest, and collaborated with Chinese paleobotanists. Leopold's work as a conservationist included taking legal action to help save the Florissant Fossil Beds in Colorado, and fighting pollution. She was the daughter of Aldo Leopold.

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United States
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1927 to 2024 · aged 97
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