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ARMEN L. TAKHTAJAN ()

Armen Leonovich Takhtajan, one of the greatest botanists of our time, passed away on November 13, , at the age of He was born June 10, , in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, in the Southern Caucasus.

He had just published his revised classification, Flowering Plants (Springer, ), in which he synthesized his own vast knowledge of plant evolution acquired over 60 years of study and much of the phylogenetic information that had been published in recent years by others.

He graduated from the Institute of Subtropical Cultivation in Tbilisi, Georgia in , received his Ph.D. in Leningrad in , and his Dr. Sci. at Yerevan State University in He was on staff at various institutions in Yerevan until when he joined the faculty at Leningrad State University ( to ), after which he joined the staff of the Komarov Botanical Institut