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Charles Vancouver Piper

Plant Sciences

Charles Vancouver Piper (1867 to 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist who spent most of his career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1903 onward. He worked on the domestication and introduction of grasses, bringing Sudan grass from Africa to North America as a forage crop, and in 1923 wrote, with William Joseph Morse, The Soybean, a monograph that helped establish soybean as a major American crop; he was a founding member and later president of the American Society of Agronomy.

Facts
Birth Year
1867 1
Death Year
1926 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Compiled the first authoritative guides to the flora of the northwestern United States and spent a career from 1903 at the U.S. Department of Agriculture working on agricultural grasses. 1
Defining Contribution
Co-wrote the 1923 monograph The Soybean, a classic study of the species 2
Connections

Works In

Agronomy, Disciplines
Source Charles Vancouver Piper (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

United States

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Source Wikidata: Charles Vancouver Piper
Sources
1. Charles Vancouver Piper (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 - 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.
  • Biography section
    Piper compiled the first authoritative guides to flora in the northwestern United States.
  • Works In: Agronomy, Lead paragraph
    American botanist and agriculturalist
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2. Charles Vancouver Piper, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, birth date
    Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 - 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.
  • Lead paragraph, death date
    Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 - 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.
  • Lead paragraph, nationality
    Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 - 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.
  • Soybean studies paragraph
    In 1923, he wrote, with William Joseph Morse, The Soybean, a thorough and now classic monograph of the species.
View the Source
Wikidata: Charles Vancouver Piper
Wikidata Q567756, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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