L. D. Gottlieb
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Name
Leslie D. Gottlieb
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Dates
1936 - 31 Jan 2012
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Specialities
Spermatophytes
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Roles
Determiner, Author, Collector
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Movement Details
United States
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Notes
Author Notes: Clarkia (Onagraceae)
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On 2/6/2012 9:45 AM, Aaron Liston wrote:
Leslie David Gottlieb was born in New York City in 1936. Following a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1957, he earned a Master's degree from Oregon State University in 1965, where he studied hybridization between species of manzanita in southwestern Oregon. His PhD at the University of Michigan in 1969 examined patterns of diversity and mechanisms of speciation in Stephanomeria. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Genetics at the University of California, Davis where he taught classes in genetics and evolutionary biology, and served as department chair for three years during the mid-1980s. Gottlieb researched a broad array of subjects including plant speciation, polyploidy, biochemical evolution of isozymes and molecular genetics. He will be long remembered as a pioneer and strong advocate for the application of biochemical and molecular data to plant systematics. Many of his studies dealt with rare and endangered species, particularly in the genera Clarkia and Stephanomeria. He also wrote the Flora of North America treatment of Stephanomeria.
Gottlieb published more than 120 research papers and received a number of awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1975), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985), Alumni Association Fellow of Oregon State University (1993), and the Botanical Society of America Merit Award (2000) and Centennial Fellow Award (2006).
In 2004, Leslie and his wife Vera Ford Gottlieb retired from UC Davis to Ashland, Oregon. He was active in the Native Plant Society of Oregon, and served as Chair of the Rare and Endangered Plants Committee. He passed away on January 31, 2012, from the complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 75.
Aaron Liston, Professor
Department of Botany & Plant Pathology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-2902 USA
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Leslie David Gottlieb Leslie D. Gottlieb, 75, of Ashland, Ore., passed away Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at his residence.
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