Natalie Whitford Uhl


Natalie Whitford Uhl was an American botanist who specialised in palms.
The eldest of three sisters, she grew up on a farm in Rhode Island. She graduated B.S in 1940 from Rhode Island State College, while at the same time publishing two papers with Vernon Cheadle, her senior year advisor. In 1940, she went to Cornell University earning her M.S. in 1943, her Ph.D. in 1947. While at Cornell, she met and married her husband, Charles Uhl.
Her work with palms began in 1963 when she returned to Cornell University to work with Harold E. Moore.
in 1978, she and John Dransfield became associate editors of Principes, the journal which later became Palms, and co-editors in 1980 with the death of Harold Moore. She continued to co-edit it until 2000.

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