Background
Thorne, Robert Folger was born on July 13, 1920 in Spring Lake, New Jersey, United States.
Thorne, Robert Folger was born on July 13, 1920 in Spring Lake, New Jersey, United States.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1941; Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy in Botany, Cornell Univercity, 1949.
Assistant, Cornell Univercity, 1945-1946; instructor, Cornell Univercity, 1948-1949; from assistant professor to professor, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1949-1962; professor botany, Claremont (California) Graduate School, since 1962; curator, taxonomist, Rancho Santa Ana Bot Garden, Claremont, since 1962; taxonomist emeritus, Rancho Santa Ana Bot Garden, Claremont.
Fellow Linnean Society London, French Society Biogeog. Member International Society Plant Taxonomists, International Society Plant Morphology, Botanical Society of America (Merit award 1996), American Society Taxonomy (secretary 1957-1958, president 1968).