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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB PRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin 's closest friend. [2]
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (born June 30, 1817, Halesworth, Suffolk, England—died December 10, 1911, Sunningdale, Berkshire) was an English botanist noted for his botanical travels and studies and for his encouragement of Charles Darwin and of Darwin’s theories.
It describes over 7,500 genera and nearly 100,000 species and established the Bentham-Hooker model for plant classification. In 1855, Hooker was appointed Assistant Director of The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, later following in his father's footsteps as Director (1865-1885).
Jun 23, 2017 · Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 2017 marks 200 years since Joseph Hooker’s birth in Halesworth, Suffolk in 1817. One of the nineteenth century’s most famous and lauded British scientists, Joseph Hooker remains an influential figure to modern botanical science.
Jun 27, 2018 · Hooker, Joseph Dalton. British Botanist 1817-1911. Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the leading British botanists of the late nineteenth century. He was born in Halesworth, Sussex, and was the son of another great British botanist, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865).
Joseph Dalton Hooker was arguably the most important British botanist of the nineteenth century. A traveler and plant-collector, he was one of Charles Darwin’s closest friends and eventually became director of Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
May 5, 2017 · On the last day of September 1839, the 22-year-old Joseph Dalton Hooker boarded HMS Erebus bound for far southern seas. He spent the next four years as assistant ship’s surgeon – a lowly position...
Jun 22, 2017 · Joseph Dalton Hooker, born 200 years ago this month, made extraordinary contributions to science over a life (1817–1911) that spanned the Victorian era and beyond.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), botanist and explorer, was born on 30 June 1817 at Halesworth, Suffolk, England, second son of the distinguished botanist, Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), and his wife Maria Sarah, eldest daughter of Dawson Turner, banker and naturalist of Norwich.
Joseph Dalton Hooker was born on 30 June 1817 in Halesworth, Suffolk. The second child of William Jackson Hooker, Joseph would, during the course of his life, become a ‘botanical trailblazer’ - travelling across the globe to collect plants and theorising on plant species diversity and geography.
