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• n  a biologist specializing in the study of plants

• Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by Friedrich Reinitzer, an Austrian botanist, and named a year later by Otto Lehman, a German physicist.
• Rodney Barker's And the Waters Turned to Blood traces the investigation by botanist JoAnn Burkholder of a mysterious microorganism linked to massive fish kills in North Carolina .
• There's no agreed upon answer, says Clive Brasier, a British botanist.

• phytologist
• plant scientist

News & Articles

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• Botanist to unveil online ID program
  BRUNSWICK — Visit Curtis Memorial Library at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday July 10 for “Go Botany,” a hands-on workshop with botanist and environmental educator Don Hudson. read more
  June 20, 2013 - The Times Record
• A new company, Bruichladdich UK Distribution Ltd, is created to distribute the Bruichladdich range of Islay single ...
  A new company is created to distribute the Bruichladdich range of Islay single malt Scotch whiskies and The Botanist, Islay dry gin. Based in Glasgow, Bruichladdich UK Distribution Ltd will communicate directly with trade customers and consumers. (PRWeb June 18, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10750258.htm
  June 18, 2013 - PRWeb
• Killer Plants Take Over Brooklyn Garden for Opera: Music
  In “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” a crazy botanist locks up his daughter in a garden with poisonous plants.
  June 17, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Rick Rashid in Bink.nu
  Addressing professors and researchers from a wide spectrum of disciplines, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, said, "Regardless of whether you're a botanist or a brain surgeon, computer science increasingly impacts your work...
• Charles Baudelaire in New York Magazine
  I don't know Armstrong well, but he seems to have a dash of what Baudelaire called the flâneur, a "gentleman stroller of city streets," a "botanist of the sidewalk."
• Carl Linnaeus in Connecticut College
  Noelle O'Connor, art historian and independent scholar, will introduce the man whom Carolus Linnaeus called the "greatest natural botanist" in her talk, "John Bartram: A Curious Man and His Plants."