doctoral_advisor death_date influenced influences nationality fields workplaces name birth_date known_for article_title citizenship alma_mater
richard evans schultes january 7 , 1989 wade davis richard evans schultes american ethnobotany field museum of natural history timothy plowman november 17 , 1944 · intensive systematic study of coca timothy plowman
 united states cornell university , harvard university
timothy plowman

timothy plowman -lrb- november 17 , 1944 -- january 7 , 1989 -rrb- was an ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus `` erythroxylum '' in general , and the cultivated coca species in particular .
he collected more than 700 specimens from south america , housed in the collection of the field museum of natural history .
plowman joined the field museum of natural history in 1978 where he became tenured in 1983 and was appointed curator in 1988 .
he published more than 80 scientific papers -lrb- 46 on `` erythroxylum '' -rrb- and served as editor for several scientific journals .
he is one of the main subjects of `` one river : explorations and discoveries in the amazon rain forest '' by wade davis .
plowman died of aids , which he contracted from pre-trip inoculations .
the nightshade species `` brunfelsia plowmaniana '' was named after him .
