Katherine Esau
German-American botanist
Katherine Esau was a pioneering German-American botanist who studied plant anatomy and the effects of viruses. Her books Plant Anatomy and Anatomy of Seed Plants are key texts. Wikipedia
Born: April 3, 1898, Dnipro, Ukraine
Died: June 4, 1997 (age 99 years), Santa Barbara, CA
Education: University of California, Davis (1931)