Background
RAVEN., administrator and educator was born on June 13, 1936 in Shanghai, China. Son of Walter Raven and Isabelle (nee Breen) Raven.
Botanist administrator and educator
RAVEN., administrator and educator was born on June 13, 1936 in Shanghai, China. Son of Walter Raven and Isabelle (nee Breen) Raven.
University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Los Los Angeles
Fellow, British Museum, London 1960-1961. Taxonomist, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, California 196162. Assistant Professor, then Association Professor, of Biological Sciences, Stanford University 71.
Director Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann Professor, of Botany, Washington
University, Saint Louis, Missouri since 1971. Chairman National Museum Services Board 1984-1988.
President Organization for Tropical Studies 1985-1988. Fellow, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, California Academy, of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Linnean Society of London and John Doctorate. Raven and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Washington University 1985-1990.
Foreign; professional papers.
Governing Board National Research Council 1983-1986, 1987-1988, Board World Wildlife Fund—United States of America 1983-1988, National Geographic Society Commission, on Research and Exploration since 1982, North.A.S. Commission, on Human Rights 1984-1987, Smithsonian Council 1985-1990. Royal Danish Academy, of Sciences and Letters, Royal Swedish Academy, of Sciences.
Married Tamra Engelhom in 1968.