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'''Hugh Daniel Wilson''' (August 15, 1943 - November 5, 2018) was an American botanist and plant taxonomist. He was a professor at [[Texas A&M University]] and was named a [[Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]].
==Biography==
Wilson attended [[Alliance High School (Alliance, Ohio)|Alliance High School]] in [[Alliance, Ohio]], where he ran track and played football.<ref name="HOF"></ref> He attended college after serving for four years in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in botany, both from [[Kent State University]]. He completed a Ph.D. in botany and anthropology from [[Indiana University Bloomington]]. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1977.
In 1980, he received the Edmund H. Fulling Award for the best oral presentation by an early-career scientist at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany.<ref name="Fulling"></ref> By 1983, Wilson was studying the conditions that allow for the survival of ''[[Spiranthes parksii]]'' (Navasota lady's tresses), which was one of 12 endangered plants in Texas. Only 100 to 150 of these [[orchid]]s had been identified, and they grew in southern [[Brazos County, Texas]].<ref name="Snell"></ref>
In 1994, when [[Upjohn]] was seeking approval for a type of genetically engineered squash, Wilson raised concern that the new disease-resistant squash might be able to crossbreed with other types of squash and produce [[Glyphosate|superweeds]].<ref name="Yoon"></ref>
Wilson was interested in the digitization of botanical data. With two colleagues in the late 1990s, he designed a website with photos and descriptions of [[East Texas]] flowers. The website was named a Coolest Science Site by the [[National Academies Press|National Academy Press]].<ref name="GDN"></ref>
Wilson was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990.<ref name="AAAS"></ref> He retired from Texas A&M in 2011 and died in 2018.<ref name="TAMU"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:American botanists]]
[[Category:Texas A&M University faculty]]
[[Category:Kent State University alumni]]
[[Category:Indiana University Bloomington alumni]]
[[Category:People from Alliance, Ohio]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
==Biography==
Wilson attended [[Alliance High School (Alliance, Ohio)|Alliance High School]] in [[Alliance, Ohio]], where he ran track and played football.<ref name="HOF"></ref> He attended college after serving for four years in the [[United States Air Force]] during the [[Vietnam War]]. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in botany, both from [[Kent State University]]. He completed a Ph.D. in botany and anthropology from [[Indiana University Bloomington]]. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1977.
In 1980, he received the Edmund H. Fulling Award for the best oral presentation by an early-career scientist at the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany.<ref name="Fulling"></ref> By 1983, Wilson was studying the conditions that allow for the survival of ''[[Spiranthes parksii]]'' (Navasota lady's tresses), which was one of 12 endangered plants in Texas. Only 100 to 150 of these [[orchid]]s had been identified, and they grew in southern [[Brazos County, Texas]].<ref name="Snell"></ref>
In 1994, when [[Upjohn]] was seeking approval for a type of genetically engineered squash, Wilson raised concern that the new disease-resistant squash might be able to crossbreed with other types of squash and produce [[Glyphosate|superweeds]].<ref name="Yoon"></ref>
Wilson was interested in the digitization of botanical data. With two colleagues in the late 1990s, he designed a website with photos and descriptions of [[East Texas]] flowers. The website was named a Coolest Science Site by the [[National Academies Press|National Academy Press]].<ref name="GDN"></ref>
Wilson was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990.<ref name="AAAS"></ref> He retired from Texas A&M in 2011 and died in 2018.<ref name="TAMU"></ref>
==References==
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:American botanists]]
[[Category:Texas A&M University faculty]]
[[Category:Kent State University alumni]]
[[Category:Indiana University Bloomington alumni]]
[[Category:People from Alliance, Ohio]]
[[Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science]]
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