Rimo Bacigalupi (1901–1996), known as "Bach",[note 1] was an American botanist and taxonomist, an expert in the flora of California.
He was educated at Lowell High School and entered Stanford University intending to become a lawyer, but changed his major from English to botany, receiving the A.B.
He served with the U.S. Army during World War II, then returned to Stanford as an instructor in biology.
[3] When Willis Linn Jepson, professor of botany at UC Berkeley, died in 1946, he left his estate to the University of California for the purpose of continuing his studies of Californian flora.
[2] Besides his mastery of botany, Bacigalupi was an expert in operatic scores, Romance languages, postage stamps and railroads.