Asa Gray

Also known as A.Gray, A. Gray

American botanist (1810–1888)

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Born: 1810
Died: 1888
Works: 370

Top works

First lessons in botany and vegetable physiology
How plants grow
Botanical contributions, 1886
Gray's lessons in botany and vegetable physiology
Gray's school and field book of botany

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1968-06-13

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Discography

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Listeners: 1
Total plays: 1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,866x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,134x
A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk
· 1999 · cited 12,134x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,439x
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't
· 1996 · cited 10,951x

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Quotes

“The two Biological Sciences, ... considered as parts of , are Zoology and Botany. The latter is the natural history of the Vegetable Kingdom. It embraces every scientific inquiry that can be made respecting plants, their nature, their kinds, the laws which govern them, and the part they play in the general economy of the world.”
“Wherefore, in Galileo's time, we might have helped to proscribe, or to burn — had he been stubborn enough to warrant cremation — even the great pioneer of inductive research; although, when we had fairly recovered our composure, and had leisurely excogitated the matter, we might have come to conclude that the was better then , after all, at least for those who had nothing to unlearn.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1810-11-18 ) November 18, 1810, Sauquoit, New York , U.S.
Died: January 30, 1888 (1888-01-30) (aged 77), Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
Spouse: Jane Loring Gray
Fields: Botany
Institutions: University of Michigan Harvard University
Author abbrev botany: A.Gray

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Asa Gray, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Asa Gray ForMemRS (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) was an American botanist who was considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. His Darwiniana (1876) was considered by some as an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. He was also strongly opposed to the ideas of hybridization within one generation and special creation in the sense of its not allowing for evolution. Gray was a strong supporter of Darwin while at the same time being a proponent of theistic evolution.

As a professor of botany at Harvard University for several decades, Gray regularly visited, and corresponded with, many of the leading natural scientists of the era, including Charles Darwin, who held great regard for him. Gray made several trips to Europe to collaborate with leading European scientists of the era, as well as trips to the southern and western United States. He also built an extensive network of specimen collectors.