Áskell Löve

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Áskell Löve
Born(1916-10-20)20 October 1916
University of Colorado at Boulder

Áskell Löve (20 October 1916 – 29 May 1994) was an

Icelandic systematic botanist, particularly active in the Arctic.[1]

Education

Áskell studied

PhD in 1942 in botany and a D.Sc. degree in genetics the year after. From 1941 to 1945, he was a research associate at Lund University and a corresponding geneticist at the University of Iceland
.

Work

In 1945, where he served as director of Institute of Botany and Plant Breeding at the

University of Colorado at Boulder
, which he remained until 1974.

Áskell was awarded a Guggenheim fellow in 1963[2] and elected member of the Icelandic Academy of Sciences. He was a co-founder of the Flora Europaea-project. He retained his Icelandic citizenship to his death.

Áskell was particularly interested in the

chromosome numbers of plants. He published numerous accounts in this field,[3][4][5][6][7][8] including editing more than hundred chromosome number reports published in the scientific journal Taxon between 1964 and 1988.[9] He made a major contribution to the evolution and taxonomy of the wheat-relatives in the Triticeae.[10]

In 1974, Áskell, then full professor and chairman of the biology department of the

Hunt Botanical Library in Pittsburgh in 1997 and was supposed to be kept unreleased until 2018.[11]

Áskell also wrote papers about plant evolution from a more theoretical angle, e.g. the still cited The biological species concept and its evolutionary structure.[12]

He wrote some floras on Icelandic plants, including Íslenzk Ferðaflóra (1970, 2nd. ed. 1975), illustrated by Dagny Tande Lid.[13]

Personal life

Áskell married his fellow student and colleague Doris Löve (née Wahlén). Together, they moved back to Iceland in 1945.

The standard author abbreviation Á.Löve is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Morgenbladid. 2 June 1994
  2. ^ List of Guggenheim Fellows
  3. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (1956). "Cytotaxonomical conspectus of the Icelandic flora". Acta Horti Gotoburgensis. 20 (4): 65–290.
  4. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (1961). Chromosome numbers of central and northwest European plant species. Opera Botanica. Vol. 5. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. pp. 1–581.
  5. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (1966). Cytotaxonomy of the alpine vascular plants of Mount Washington. University of Colorado Studies. Series of Biology No. 24. Boulder: University of Colorado. pp. 1–75.
  6. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (1974). Cytotaxonomical atlas of the Slovenian flora. Cytotaxonomical Atlases vol. 1. Vaduz: J. Cramer. p. 1241.
  7. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D. (1975). Cytotaxonomical atlas of the Arctic flora. Cytotaxonomical Atlases vol. 2. Vaduz: J. Cramer. p. 598.
  8. ^ Löve, Á.; Löve, D.; Pichi-Sermolli, R. E. G. (1977). Cytotaxonomical atlas of the Pteridophyta. Cytotaxonomical Atlases vol. 3. Vaduz: J. Cramer. p. 398.
  9. JSTOR 1551945
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  10. doi:10.1002/fedr.4910950702
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  11. S2CID 218525313
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  12. JSTOR 1216308
    .
  13. ^ Löve, Á. (1970). Íslenzk Ferðaflóra [Icelandic Excursion Flora, Drawings by Dagny Tande Lid] (in Icelandic). Reykjavík: Almenna Bókfélagið.
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Á.Löve.
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