Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky Author

Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890–1957) graduated from Moscow University and in 1918 joined a Soviet university in his native Voronezh where he became a vice-president as well as director of the local botanical garden. Victor Fet is Professor of Biology at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. Lynn Margulis was Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Peter H. Raven is George Engelmann Professor Emeritus of Botany, Washington University in St. Louis, and President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.