death_date nationality fields birth_date residence alma_mater death_place influenced influences image author_abbrev_bot citizenship name caption birth_place awards known_for doctoral_advisor workplaces article_title
april 10 , 2001 american ethnobotany january 12 , 1915 cambridge , massachusetts harvard university boston e.o. ginsberg alejo carpentier , william s. burroughs wade davis , wilson mark plotkin , terence mckenna , timothy plowman , andrew weil daniel goleman , alan oakes ames , richard spruce schultes amazon 1940s.jpg r.e.schult . united states richard evans schultes dr. richard evans schultes in the amazon boston · gold medal - linnean society of london · plants · ethnobotanical discoveries including source of the dart poison studying -lrb- curare -rrb- · alerted world to destruction of amazon native rainforest and people american uses of entheogenic or hallucinogenic oakes ames harvard university richard evans schultes

richard evans schultes

richard evans schultes -lrb- `` shull-tees '' -rrb- was a biologist -lrb- january 12 , 1915 -- april 10 , 2001 -rrb- and may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany , for his studies of indigenous peoples ' -lrb- especially the indigenous peoples of the americas -rrb- uses of plants , including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants -lrb- particularly in mexico and the amazon -rrb- , for his lifelong collaborations with chemists , and for his charismatic influence as an educator at harvard university on a number of students and colleagues who went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums , botanical gardens , and popular culture .
his book `` the plants of the gods : their sacred , healing , and hallucinogenic powers '' -lrb- 1979 -rrb- , co-authored with chemist albert hofmann , the discoverer of lsd , is considered his greatest popular work : it has never been out of print and was revised into an expanded second edition , based on a german translation by christian rätsch -lrb- 1998 -rrb- , in 2001 .
