Harry E. Ahles | |
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 Ahles inKankakee, Illinoisc. 1950 | |
| Born | 1924 (1924) |
| Died | 1981 (aged 56–57) |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | University of Illinois University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill New York Botanical Garden |
Harry E. Ahles (1924–1981) was an American botanist.[1]
Harry Ahles was born in 1924. Although he had no formal education beyondhigh school, his profound botanical knowledge allowed him to enter the botanical profession as anherbarium curator at theUniversity of Illinois.
He later followedRitchie Bell toNorth Carolina to study the flora of that state, becoming the herbarium curator of theUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1956.Albert E. Radford, Ahles, and Bell published theManual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas in 1968 as a result of these researches. Ahles left Chapel Hill in 1966 due, in part, to his dislike of the installation ofair conditioning in the herbarium. He took a position at theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ahles collected over 200,000 specimens while at Chapel Hill, and was similarly active at Amherst, where he built a log cabin atop Horse Mountain for his residence. He died in 1981.[2]
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