Read the bio below and try to give details on jerzy rzedowski 's: - known for - birth name - spouse - birth date - name - nationality - birth place - occupation Bio: jerzy rzedowski rotter -lrb- born december 27 , 1926 -rrb- is a mexican botanist . he was born in lwow , poland -lrb- now in ukraine -rrb- . while he was young he was made prisoner by the germans . he remained in a concentration camp until world war ii finished and he was liberated by the allies . he then travelled to mexico looking for a more peaceful country . he studied a bachelor 's degree in biology at the instituto politecnico nacional and a phd in botany at universidad nacional autonoma de mexico . his thesis on the flora of the pedregal de san angel was quite important at this stage of his career . he worked at different companies and institutions such as syntex , smith , kline & french , colegio de postgraduados , universidad autonoma de san luis potosi and instituto politecnico nacional . he did not just work in the herbarium . he explored a lot of places surveying the local plant life . he collected more than 50000 specimens that can be found in many herbaria . at the time that he started to work on mexican floristics very few studies were published in that field , so he became a pioneer in it . afterwards , he became the most respected botanist in mexico . rzedowski is the author of '' vegetacion de mexico '' -lrb- 1971 -rrb- , co-editor and co-author of '' flora fanerogamica del valle de mexico '' -lrb- 1979 ; 2001 , 2nd edition -rrb- , and of '' flora del bajio y de regiones adyacentes '' -lrb- 1991 -- -rrb- . in 1995 , he won the asa gray award . in 1999 he was one of the botanists to whom it was conferred the millennium botany award . in 2005 he was awarded the jose cuatrecasas medal for excellence in tropical botany . the herbaria of instituto politecnico nacional and of universidad autonoma de queretaro are named after rzedowski . the botanical garden of universidad autonoma agraria antonio narro is named after him as well . the following taxa have been named after him : '' agave rzedowskiana '' '' anthurium rzedowskii '' '' bernardia rzedowskii '' '' bouvardia rzedowskii '' '' bursera...
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- known for is pioneer in neotropical floristics- birth name is jerzy rzedowski- spouse is graciela calderon- birth date is 27 december 1926- name is jerzy rzedowski- nationality is mexican- birth place is lwow , poland- occupation is botanist