Charles Piper

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Charles Vancouver Piper
Born(1867-06-16)June 16, 1867
DiedFebruary 11, 1926(1926-02-11) (aged 58)
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materWashington State University
Harvard University
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 – 11 February 1926) was an American

agriculturalist.[1] Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, he spent his youth in Seattle, Washington Territory and graduated from the University of Washington Territory in 1885. He taught botany and zoology in 1892 at the Washington Agricultural College (now Washington State University) in Pullman. He earned a master's degree in botany in 1900 from Harvard University
.

Biography

Piper compiled the first authoritative guides to flora in the northwestern United States. With his collaborator, R. Kent Beattie, he surveyed the Palouse area of southeastern Washington, and expanded the study to the entire state in 1906. That year, The Smithsonian Institution published his catalog Flora of the State of Washington.[2] He also published Flora of Southeast Washington and Adjacent Idaho (1914) and Flora of the Northwest Coast (1915).[3][4] These works established him as an authority on the plants of the northwestern U.S.

In 1903, Piper began a career at the

cereals
, and other crops. He attributed this to the lack of economic incentive in studying forage plants.

He was a founding member of the American Society of Agronomy in 1907 and served later as its president. Piper's knowledge of grasses led him to become Chairman of the United States Golf Association's Green Section from 1920 until his death.

The

Piperia yadonii
), is named after him.

Soy research

The soybean was another subject of Piper's studies. In 1923, he wrote, with William J. Morse, The Soybean, a thorough and now classic monograph of the species. The botanist was instrumental in establishing this plant as a successful crop in the U.S.[5][6] It became a fundamental part of U.S. agriculture. Since the 1970s, it has been the second largest and most valuable crop in the United States after corn - and ahead of wheat.

The standard author abbreviation Piper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References

  1. ^ "PIPER, Charles Vancouver". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 858.
  2. JSTOR 40473773
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  3. doi:10.1126/science.43.1122.932
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  4. JSTOR 40595716
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  5. ^ Perkins; Woods; WSU Libraries.
  6. ISBN 9781928914952
    . With many documents by and about Charles V. Piper.
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Piper.

Further reading

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