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Raven, Peter Hamilton was born on June 13, 1936 in Shanghai, China. Son of Walter Francis and Isabelle Marion (Breen) Raven.
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Botany educator botanical garden director
Raven, Peter Hamilton was born on June 13, 1936 in Shanghai, China. Son of Walter Francis and Isabelle Marion (Breen) Raven.
AB with highest honors, University of California-Berkeley, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1960; Doctor of Science (honorary), St. Saint Louis University, 1982; Doctor of Science (honorary), Knox College, 1983; Doctor of Science (honorary), Southern Illinois U., 1983; Doctor of Science (honorary), Miami University, 1986; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Goteborg, 1987; Doctor of Science (honorary), Rutgers University, 1988; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1988; Doctor of Science (honorary), Leiden U., The Netherlands, 1990; HHD (honorary), Webster U., 1989; Honorary Doctor of Science, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, 1991; Honorary Doctor of Science, Westminster College, 1992; Honorary Doctor of Science, U. Missouri, 1992; Honorary Doctor of Science, Washington University, 1993; Honorary Doctor of Science, U. Connecticut, 1993; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Cordoba, Argentina, 1993.
Taxonomist, curator, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, 1961-1962;
assistant professor, then associate professor biological science, Stanford University, California, 1962-1971;
director, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, since 1971;
Adjunct Professor biology, St. Saint Louis University, since 1973;
Engelmann professor botany, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1976;
Adjunct Professor biology, U. Missouri, St. Louis, since 1976. Senior research fellow New Zealand Department Science and Industrial Research, 1969-1970. Vice president XIII International Botanical Congress, Sydney, 1981.
Home Secretary National Academy Sciences, since 1987. Chairman report review committee National Research Council, since 1989. Member president committee Advisory on Science and Technology, since 1994.
Honorary vice-chair 27th International GeographicalCong., 1992. Honorary vice president XV Internt. Botanical Congress, Tokyo, 1993.
Member National Science Board, 1990-1994. Member jury International St. Francis Prize for Environment, 1990-1993. Member Executive Committee Joint Appeal by Religion and Science forEnvironment, since 1991.
Member external advisory board Committee on Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1992-1994. Member county World Resources Institute, since 1992. Member of advisory committee Africa Center for Resources and Environment, since 1992, Third World Foundation North America, 1993.
Member of advisory commission to biodiversity committee Chinese Academy Sciences, since 1993. Member Executive Committee Round Table, St. Louis, since 1993. Member honorary foreign advisory board Botanical Garden Organisation Thailand, since 1993.
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Board curators U. Missouri, 1985-1990. Commissioner Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, since 1971. Member Arnold Arboretum Visiting Committee, 1974-1981, chairman 1976-1981.
Board overseers Morris Arboretum, 1977-1981. Member science advisory board National Tropical Botanical Garden, since 1975. Member Smithsonian Council, 1985-1990.
Chairman St. Louis Area Museum Collaborative, 1985-1991, Common for Flora Neotropica, since 1985. Member Commision on Museum for New Century, 1981-1984. Member science and engineering panel Committee on Scholarly Communication with People's Republic China, 1981-1985.
Chairman of Commission to visit department organismic and evolutionary biology Harvard University, 1982-1984, member 84-85. Educational advisory board John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, since 1986. Research associate botany Bernice P. Bishop Museum, since 1985.
Honorary trustee Academy Science of St. Louis, since 1986. Chairman International Union for the Conservation of Nature, World Wildlife Fund, 1984-1987, honorary chairman 1987-1990. Member of advisory and technical board Fundación de Parques Nacionales and Fundación Neotrópica, Costa Rica, since 1988.
Mem.Nat. Council World Wildlife Fund and Conservation Foundation, since 1989, United States board directors 1983-1988, board directors Conservation Foundation, 1985-1988, science advising committee Conservation International, since 1988, Chairman's. county, 1989, World Wildlife Fund, 1987-1990, Conservation Foundation, since 1989, Foundation Flora Malesianna,1992-, Science Svc., since 1993. Honorary scientific advising committee XVII Pacific Science.Congress, 1990-1991. Advisory board The Winslow Foundation, since 1993, The Internat.Sci.
Camp The Earth We Share, since 1993. Executive Board International Science Found.for the Former Soviet Union, since 1992. International advisory board Fifth ICSEB Congress, Hungary, since 1994.
Commission member United States MAB, 1994-1995. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences (commission on membership 1980-1982), LinneanSoc. London (foreign member), California Academy Sciences (Chemical Abstracts Service Fellow, Fellows' medal 1988), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Indian National Science Academy, Third World Academy Sciences, World Academy Art & Science.
Member National Science Foundation (systematic biology panel 1973-1976, chairman advising committee for biological behavioral and social science 1984-1990), NAS (com.on human rights 1984-1987, home secretary since 1987), Royal Danish Academy Sciences and Letters (foreign honorary), Royal Swedish Academy Sciences (foreign), Royal Society.New Zealand (honorary), National Research Council (governor board 1983-1986, 87-88, Chairman of Commission on research priorities in tropical biology 1977-1979, assembly life science 1979-1981, commission on selected research problems in humid tropics 1980-1982, commission international relations 1981-1982), California Botanical Society (vice president 1968-1969), American Society Plant Taxonomists (president 1972), Association Systematics Collections (president 1980-1982, Federal Council Arts and Humanities, National Geographic Society (commission on research and exploration since 1982), International Organisation Plant Biosystematists (vice president 1989-1992, president 92-95), International Association for Plant Taxonomy (council since 1981), Organisation Tropical Studies (treasurer 1981-1984, v.p.devel. 1984-1985, president 1985-1988, past president 1988-1990, board directors 1981-1991), American Society Naturalists (president 1983), Miller Institute Basic Research in Science (advisory board 1983-1989), American Institute Biological Sciences (president 1983-1984), Missouri Academy Sciences, Geological Society American, Botanical Society American (president 1975, Chairman of Commission on science exchange with People's Republic China 1978-1984), Association Tropical Biology (board directors 1981-1985), American Association Museum (Executive Committee 1980-1983), Association Science Museum Dirs., Association Pacific Systematists, Sociedad Argentina deBotanica (socio honorario), Fundación Miguel Lillo (honorary), Society Systematic Zoological, Sociedad Botánica de México (life), Association pourl'Etude Taxonomique de la Flore d'Afrique Tropicale, Organisation for Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of Mediterranean Area (council 1975-1989), All-Union Botanical Society Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (honorary foreign member), Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei Extra Large (foreign), American Philosophical Society, Russian Academy Sciences (foreign member), National Academy Sciences India (foreign fellow since 1990), Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Austrian Academy Sciences, Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Chinese Academy Sciences, Nature Conservancy (President Conservation Achievement award, 1993), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Children— Alice Catherine, Elizabeth Marie, Francis Clark, Kathryn Amelia.
