George Perkins Clinton | |
Birth Date: | 7 May 1867 |
Birth Place: | Polo, Illinois |
Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
George Perkins Clinton (7 May 1867 – 13 August 1937) was an American botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist who for thirty-five years worked at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven. An expert on smuts and rusts, he was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Clinton was born in Polo, Illinois, and earned a B.S. and M.S. at the University of Illinois, followed by an M.S. and Sc.D. at Harvard.[1]
Clinton edited the exsiccata series Economic fungi, Supplement C (1903-1905).[2]