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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
G. Ledyard Stebbins
Born: January 6, 1906
Died: January 19, 2000 (aged 94)
Bio: George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931.
Known for:
- Variation and Evolution in Plants (1950)
- The basis of progressive evolution (1969)
- Chromosomal evolution in higher plants (1971)