Douglas Houghton Campbell

American botanist
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Born:
Dec. 16, 1859, Detroit, Mich., U.S.
Died:
Feb. 24, 1953, Palo Alto, Calif. (aged 93)

Douglas Houghton Campbell (born Dec. 16, 1859, Detroit, Mich., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1953, Palo Alto, Calif.) was an American botanist known for his research concerning modes of sexual reproduction in mosses and ferns. His work intensified a controversy surrounding the evolutionary origin of the Tracheophyta (vascular plants). A professor of botany at Indiana University, Bloomington (1888–91), Campbell moved to the newly founded Stanford University, Palo Alto (1891–1925), where he organized and directed the department of botany. He was an authority on the morphology and life cycles of ferns, mosses, and liverworts and on the geographic distribution of plant life. His ...(100 of 193 words)