David Gamman Frodin (8 April 1940, Chicago – 12 August 2019, London, UK) was an American botanist, known as a leading expert on the flora of Papua New Guinea.
At age 17 David Frodin enrolled at the Sydney Boys High School, where he studied for a year and developed an interest in tropical flora.
In Papua New Guinea he travelled to the provinces of Sandaun, Madang, Morobe, Southern Highlands, and West New Britain, as well as the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and collected about 1000 botanical specimens.
[2] After the expiration of his contract with the Division of Botany, Office of Forests, Frodin visited Australian herbaria[1] and made short field trips in Australia and the Far East until June 1967.
[1] Frodin received the commendation as the most productive taxonomist of the year 2018 at the Kew Science Away Day for the book The genus Schefflera in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo co-authored with Aida Shafreena Ahmed Puad and Todd J.