Joseph Dalton Hooker
✓ Source-basedstableBritish botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817-1911)
ScientistsLived 1817 to 1911 · aged 94
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend.
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Daguerreotype of Hooker by William Edward Kilburn, circa 1852
Frances Harriet Henslow, by William Edward Kilburn
Tibet and Cholamo Lake from the summit of the Donkia Pass, looking North West from Hooker's Himalayan Journals. Hooker reached the pass on 7 November 1849.
Rhododendron argenteum illustration by Walter Hood Fitch from Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya.
An 1854 illustration showing Hooker with his Lepcha collectors in Sikkim (Mezzotint by William Walker after a painting by Frank Stone)
Engraving of Hooker by Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879)
Hooker in the 1860s during his period at KewAwards 17
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Thomas Henry HuxleyAlso won Clarke Medal
Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherAlso won Victoria Medal of Honour
Stephen Jay GouldAlso won Linnean Medal
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John Hanning SpekeAlso won Founder’s Medal
Robert RobinsonAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiAbout this person
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, succeeding his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.
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Lived 1817 to 1911 · aged 94
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