Born 1936
Engelmann Professor of Botany, Washington University at St. Louis, and Director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
AAAS Presidential Address: Peter H. Raven, "Science, Sustainability, and the Human Prospect," Science (9 August 1002) 297:954-958.
Discipline: Botany AAAS offices held:- Chair, Council Affairs, 2000 - 2001
- Chair, Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee, 2001 - 2002
- President, 2002
- AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, 1997.
For his extraordinary service to science as one of the world's leading ecologists and to humanity as a tireless advocate for preserving the world's plant and animal species.