Francis Marion Ownbey
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Francis Marion Ownbey
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Francis Marion Ownbey was an American botanist. Ownbey earned his Ph.D. at the Washington University in St. Louis, with Jesse M. Greenman. Ownbey began to teach at Washington State University in 1939, and became director of the herbarium. During World War II, he was sent to Ecuador as part of the Cinchona Missions. Ownbey was especially interested in the genus Tragopogon. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1954 for his investigation into the genetics of the genus. He died in 1974, and the
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U.S. botanist (1910–1974)
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