Aaron Goldberg (botanist)

Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014)[3] was an American botanist and parasitologist.

[4] He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.

He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972.

Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C.[5][6] Member of the Botanical Society of America.

[7] He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.