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Leonard Machlis was born on 13 April, 1915 in Seattle, Washington, is an American botanist. Discover Leonard Machlis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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13 April 1915 |
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13 April |
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Seattle, Washington |
| Date of death |
1976 |
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Berkeley, California |
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United States
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Leonard Machlis Height, Weight & Measurements
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Leonard Machlis Net Worth
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Leonard Machlis (April 13, 1915 – March 26, 1976) was an American botanist.
He was best known for his research on plant hormones involved in sexual reproduction.
Leonard Machlis, who went by "Len", was born on April 13, 1915 in Seattle, Washington to parents Beatrice and Samuel, both immigrants from Russia.
He had two younger siblings, Miriam and Jack.
He first attended Washington State University, graduating in 1937.
Next, he went to the University of Hawaiʻi to complete a master's degree with Harry Clements, followed by a PhD at the University of California under Dennis Robert Hoagland in 1943.
Machlis's early career was spent on war-related projects.
He first worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for propagation of guayule plants for rubber production.
Next, he worked on a guided missile project.
After the war's conclusion, he briefly taught botany at the University of Illinois before accepting a position at University of California, Berkeley in 1946.
There, he researched the nutrition of fungi, as well as chemical signalling between fungi gametes.
He and Berkeley colleague Henry Rapoport discovered sirenin, which was "the first-known lower plant sex hormone or pheromone".
He met Gertrude Therese Rafferty while he was at the University Illinois; they married in 1946.
Gertrude had a doctorate in anatomy and physiology.
After they moved to California, she taught at Mills College.
They had four children together.
Machlis received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957 in the field of plant sciences.
He was the editor of the Annual Review of Plant Physiology from 1959 to 1972 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957.
He was the editor of the Annual Review of Plant Physiology (now the Annual Review of Plant Biology) from 1959–1972.
He was made the chair of the botany department in 1962, and remained thus until 1968.
He died on March 26, 1976, at his home in Berkeley, California.
