Category:Richard Evans Schultes
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| Date of death | 10 April 2001 Boston | ||||
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English: *Richard Evan Schultes (1915-2001) — an American Ethnobotanist and Ethnobiologist.
- A father of modern ethnobotany, with his studies of indigenous peoples' (especially of the Americas) uses of plants, including entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants.
- Schultes's botanical fieldwork led him to be one of the first to alert the world about destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the disappearance of its native people.
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- Schultes (surname)
- Richard (given name)
- Evans (given name)
- 1915 births
- 2001 deaths
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Linnean Medallists
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Ethnobotanists
- Botanists from the United States
- Ethnographers from the United States
- Faculty of Harvard University
- Alumni of Harvard University
- Births in Boston
- Deaths in Boston