Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
1850–1921
Swedish palaeobotanist and geologist. BA, Uppsala, 1873; docent, Lund, 1874. Assistant geologist, Swedish Geological Survey, 1873. Professor, archegoniates and fossil plants, Swedish museum of natural history, 1884–1917. Made several polar expeditions from 1870 and discovered and collected fossils, particularly fossil plants of which he made detailed studies.
Sources
Swedish Museum of Natural History: www.nrm.se/en/menu/researchandcollections/departments/palaeobotany/history/agnathorst.867_en.html
accessed 26 July 2010.
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