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Apr 09, 1943 Duluth, Minnesota, United States 81 years old
American botanist
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About Laurence Skog
- Laurence Edgar Skog (born April 9, 1943) is an American botanist who specializes on the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. Laurence Edgar Skog was born in Duluth, Minnesota, the oldest of four children.
- Skog was a graduate of the University of Minnesota at Duluth from where he received a Bachelor of Arts in botany with a minor in chemistry in (1965).
- Skog earned his Master of Science in botany at the University of Connecticut at Storrs (1968) and PhD in plant taxonomy from Cornell University in 1972. From 1973 to 2003 Skog was a curator and research scientist in the Botany Department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
- Since his retirement in 2003 he has continued to work at the museum as an emeritus curator.
