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he Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens,[3] is the second largest in North America, behind only that of the New York Botanical Garden.
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch,[5] it is the world's tallest arch,[4] the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere,[6] and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States,[5] and officially dedicated to the American people, it is the centerpiece of the Gateway Arch National Park and has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination.
The Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947; construction began on February 12, 1963, and was completed on October 28, 1965,[7][8] for $13 million[9] (equivalent to $77.5 million in 2018[2]). The monument opened to the public on June 10, 1967.[10] It is located at the site of St. Louis's founding on the west bank of the Mississippi River.[11][12][13]
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St. Louis is a major independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city, forming the fourth-longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2018 population of 302,838 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, and the 20th-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Home to nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri, the metro area counts among its major corporations Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina, Olin Corporation, and Sigma-Aldrich.
The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research institutions, including as Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis University, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. Among the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in the downtown area. St. Louis is also home to the Saint Louis Zoo, perennially ranked as one of the nation's best, and the Missouri Botanical Garden, with the second-largest herbarium in North America
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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS-ST LOUIS,MO-BETTER THAN GARDEN OF VERSAILLES?-EP25
While in St Louis, MO, we spent a day at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. I dragged Mark along. This is probably the best botanical garden in the US that we've seen so far. It was better for us than the Gardens of Versailles. It was impeccably maintained. Since it's only 80 acres, every single square foot is beautiful!! Versailles is 1950 acres, and just wears you down. By the time we left, Mark admitted he liked how we spent the day. I hope it wasn't just because of the cookie at lunch,.....
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The State Of Missouri - Fun Facts, History, Geography, Festivals, Travel & Much More!
Welcome to the facts for the State Of Missouri - The Show Me State. I will show you all the state facts and fun facts about the State of MO. We begin with the history of Missouri, we then look at the Geography, we proceed to discuss the Festivals, Economy, Landmarks and much more.
Learn about Missouri's landmarks like the St Louis Gateway Arch, Haha Tonka State Park, Elephant Rock State Park, Meramec Caverns and a lot more.
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Garden of Glass and Climatron Conservatory, takes place on May 13th through August 13th at Missouri Botanical Garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard. For more information about Missouri Botanical Garden and Climatory Conservatory, visit mobot.org.
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May 1, 2019 Lily of the Valley, Aimee Camus, Chicago Worlds Fair 1893, Arthur Galston, Wolcott...
Happy May Day! Today, the tradition in France is to give a sprig of Lily of the Valley to loved ones. Originally from Japan, Lily of the Valley has long been considered lucky. It's sweet scent, belies it's high toxicity. Other names for Lily of the Valley include May Bells, Our Lady's Tears, and Mary's Tears. The French name, muguet, is a diminutive form mugue or muguete and means “musk”. Brevities #OTD Today we celebrate the May 1st birthday of French BotanistAimee Antoinette Camus (kah-MEW) in 1879. In terms of ranking among female scientists, Camus is second in authoring land plants - with a total of 677 species. It's especially impressive given that only 3% of land plants are authored by women! Best known for her study of orchids, Camus was the daughter of botanist and pharmacist Edmond Gustave Camus. Together, Camus and her father collected more than 50,000 specimens for their family herbarium. Her father sparked her passion for orchids and plant anatomy. More than that, he offered connections with some of the best French botanists of her day. She gave the name of Neohouzeaua (Neo-who-zoh-ah)to a genus of seven tropical bamboo, in honor of the lifelong work that Jean Houzeau de Lehaie (Who-zoh-do-lou-ay)had devoted to the understanding of the botany and propagation of bamboo in Europe and Africa. Camus also authored horticulture books to appeal to the masses and she was always forecasting the latest in botany. When plants arrived from the French colonies, she would attempt to calculate the economic value of the plants. She spent her entire professional career at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. To this day, Camus's monumental work remains the most comprehensive classification of the oak genus Quercus (Qirkus). Her book is simply called, The Oaks, and Camus wrote this in her introduction, “The oak forest that enabled our ancestors to fight against hunger, cold, darkness, that gave them shelter, weapons, construction materials, furniture, boats, means of transport, is today in part free from these obligations. Coal, iron, cement, concrete are all replacing wood; but the Oak with its qualities remains of great usefulness to man and its protection is of the utmost importance. Further, while industrial expansion has brought ugliness to so many places, is not the forest one of the last havens of beauty?” #OTD On this day in 1893, The Chicago World's Fair opened and drew in more than 27 million visitors. Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central Park fame, designed the Exposition’s landscape. The vision for Chicago was to have it live up to its founding motto, “urbs in horto,” or “City in a Garden”. Flower Painter Augusta Dohlmann's work was displayed at the Fair. The Fair itself was a display of flora the likes of which the world had never seen. Designed by the inventor of the skyscraper, William LeBaron Jenney, the Horticultural building covered more than 4 acres of the fair grounds. There were eight different greenhouses at the Fair to help coordinate the elaborate schedule of flowers to be displayed over the Fair's six-month run. The various state buildings brought their own native flowers and fruits. The Midwest exhibit had a building made from corn-on-the-cob and Missouri created a St. Louis Bridge made entirely out of sugar cane. In the Agricultural Building, the Japanese exhibit included a garden. Denise Otis wrote in her book Grounds for Pleasure: “After Americans saw the Japanese garden ..., they became prized features on the estates of those who collected gardens in different styles.” #OTD On this day in 1943, botanist Arthur Galston realizes that excessive use of a plant growth hormone causes catastrophic defoliation. Galston recognized that the effects of using the hormone could be harmful to humans and the environment. Nonetheless, the Army moved forward, using Galston's work to develop herbicides during war to destroy enemy crops and it would be shipped in steel drums marked with an orange stripe; inspiring in the common term for the herbicidal weapon: Agent Orange. Galstondecried the use of his early research saying:“I thought it was a misuse of science. Science is meant to improve the lot of mankind, not diminish it - and its use as a military weapon I thought was ill-advised.” #OTD It's the birthday of Wolcott Andrews, a New York City landscape architect who lived in Wiscasset (Wis-cass-it), Maine. Andrews received a master's degree in landscape architecture from the Harvard School of Design in 1930. Andrews started out working with New York City's Parks Department. That experience afforded him the chance to partner with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in designing and constructing Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan, the site of the Cloisters. Andrews eventually became the senior landscape architect for the New York City Housing Authority for more than 20 years, retiring in 1966. A noted...
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M.V. Sergeant Floyd, after bicentennial she was decommissioned and moored in St. Louis where an attempt was made to employ her as a floating museum. In 1983, the Floyd was again offered for sale as surplus property. Aware of the vessel’s historic significance, the City of Sioux City obtained the Sergeant Floyd, now permanently dry-docked, she serves as a combined state tourist welcome center and river museum.
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May 3, 2019 National Garden Meditation Day, Walter Elias Broadway, Henry Shaw, Saks 5th Avenue,...
Today is National Garden Meditation Day. Forget about your troubles Go to the garden (if you're not there already). Feel the breeze or the sprinkles. Smell the rain. Look at all the signs of life around you... all the shades of green emerging from the ground. Listen to the sound of spring. Garden time is restorative and resetting. Use #GardenMeditationDay today when you post on social media. Brevities #OTD Born on this day in 1863, Walter Elias Broadway; a kew gardener and authority on West Indian plants. Broadway was recognized by George V for his work in horticulture, although his career was shaded by bad blood with his supervisor John Hart and a drinking problem. In 1888, Kew sent Broadway to Trinidad and Tobago to take up the newly created role of Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden. Initially, everything seemed wonderful; the islands were a tropical plant-lovers paradise and there was already a botanic garden and herbarium in place. All Broadway needed to do was launch himself into learning everything he could about the tropical plants without a definitive reference to guide him. How hard could that be? Along the way, his eagerness to get plant id's from Kew and the British Museum, led him to go around his boss. It wasn't long before Hart required Broadway to funnel all of his collected specimens through him. Things deteriorated further when Hart ordered Broadway to devote his discretionary time to the garden - calling him in from his beloved field time and severely limiting his ability to collect new plant specimens. Broadway found other pursuits to bring him joy and satisfaction. He adored learning about the history of Trinidad. He found he loved to collect insect specimens. He helped found the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club. Despite Hart's limitations, Walter Broadway truly mastered the art of plant collecting. Broadway took the chance to get away from the day to day with Hart when the curator of the Botanic Gardens in Grenada opened up. It was there, that he started collecting for private herbariums. It didn't make him rich, but it helped alleviate his frequent financial difficulties. Broadway spent over a decade in Grenada before heading to neighboring Tobago. By 1908, Hart had been forced to retire. Broadway resumed collecting with great zeal; he even sent mosses to Elisabeth Britton. By 1915, Broadway was transferred back to Trinidad. He continued exploring remote parts of the island to collect plants. Broadway retired in 1923 and he lived his final years in Trinidad - the island that had stolen his heart. His devotion to the natural world never waned and he was always on the lookout for new or interesting plants to sell to his private clientele. Although a flora of Trinidad and Tobago was published in 1928, Broadway was not a part of it. That said, much of the works cited references Broadway's collections - there was simply no disputing his collecting contributions. botanist Andrew Carr described Broadway as an exceptionally fine man. Entirely unselfish in spirit, he was always ready to share his vast knowledge of the botany of the island with other interested persons. I shall never forget his joy at discovering a new species of moss in a drain in Oxford Street. He was regarded, and justifiably so, as a walking encyclopedia on the botany of these parts ... Today, at the annual flower show of The Trinidad & Tobago, the Walter Elias Broadway Memorial Trophy is awarded for the best foliage plant exhibit. #OTD On this day in 1819, botanist and philanthropist Henry Shaw arrived in St. Louis. St. Louis had been founded over fifty years before Shaw's arrival, and the population by 1820 was just over 10,000 people. Shaw is commemorated on the St. Louis Walk of Fame with this epitaph: Henry Shaw, only 18 when he came to St. Louis, was one of the city’s largest landowners by age 40. Working with leading botanists, he planned, funded and built the Missouri Botanical Garden, which opened in 1859. Shaw donated the land for Tower Grove Park and helped with its construction. He wrote botanical tracts, endowed Washington University’s School of Botany, helped found the Missouri Historical Society, and gave the city a school and land for a hospital. Of Shaw’s gifts, the Botanical Garden is best-known. Said as early as 1868 to have “no equal in the United States, and, indeed, few anywhere in the world. In addition to the Botanical Garden, Shaw built the Linnean House in 1882. It is the oldest continuously operated public greenhouse west of the Mississippi River and was originally designed to be an orangery; a place to overwinter citrus trees, palms and tree ferns. #OTD On this day in 2015, all Saks Fifth Avenue stores simultaneously revealed their month-long May spring theme of Glam Gardens and each store was transformed into a garden paradise. Beauty-themed garden installations flourished in windows and throughout...
2014 Maryville University Graduation Send-Off at Busch Stadium
Alumni Relations, Office of the President, and Student life hosted the 2014 Graduation Send-Off at Busch Stadium for all graduating seniors.
James A. Duke Interview Part 5
Part 5: Work in the botany of Latin America.
Title: Oral history Interview by Jane Gates with James A. Duke.
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Published: Beltsville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library; Washington, D.C., 1988.
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Description: Dr. James A. Duke is a lecturer, author, plant explorer and former USDA botanist with the Agricultural Research Service. He created the groundbreaking Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases at the USDA as well as publishing numerous books such as the Handbook of Legumes of World Economic Importance. Dr. Duke is also famed as an expert on herbs and alternative crop plants, penning titles such as the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants, and many others.
Biodiversity Heritage Library | Wikipedia audio article
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts, the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing tens of thousands of titles and more than 100,000 volumes.
Founded in 2005, BHL soon became the third broad digitization project for biodiversity literature, after Gallica and AnimalBase. In 2008, the size of Gallica and AnimalBase was passed, and BHL is now by far the world's largest digitization project for biodiversity literature.It is a cornerstone organization of the Encyclopedia of Life.
Peter H. Raven | Wikipedia audio article
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Peter Hamilton Raven FMLS (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Botanical garden | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:58 1 Definitions
00:06:39 1.1 The botanical gardens network
00:08:45 2 Historical development
00:09:46 2.1 Precursors
00:10:04 2.1.1 Grand gardens of ancient history
00:11:59 2.1.2 Physic gardens
00:14:25 2.2 16th- and 17th-century European gardens
00:15:20 2.2.1 Origins in the Italian Renaissance
00:16:25 2.2.2 Northern Europe
00:17:58 2.2.3 Beginnings of botanical science
00:20:30 2.3 18th century
00:21:17 2.3.1 The Cape, Dutch East Indies
00:21:48 2.3.2 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
00:24:32 2.3.3 Bartram's Garden
00:25:01 2.3.4 Plant classification
00:26:25 2.4 19th century
00:27:07 2.4.1 Tropical botanical gardens
00:30:05 2.4.2 Australia
00:30:56 2.4.3 New Zealand
00:31:19 2.4.4 Hong Kong
00:31:42 2.4.5 Sri Lanka
00:32:07 2.4.6 Ecuador
00:33:02 2.4.7 Egypt
00:33:21 2.4.8 South Africa
00:33:57 2.4.9 United States
00:35:19 2.4.10 Russia
00:36:15 2.4.11 Ukraine
00:36:56 2.5 20th century
00:37:05 2.5.1 Civic and municipal botanical gardens
00:37:53 2.5.2 Community engagement
00:39:20 2.5.3 Plant conservation
00:40:55 3 Role and functions
00:43:05 4 Future
00:45:19 5 Photo gallery
00:45:28 6 See also
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A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation and display a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Visitor services at a botanical garden might include tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, and other entertainment.
Botanical gardens are often run by universities or lolo mo other scientific research organizations, and often have associated herbaria and research programmes in plant taxonomy or some other aspect of botanical science. In principle, their role is to maintain documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display, and education, although this will depend on the resources available and the special interests pursued at each particular garden.
The origin of modern botanical gardens is generally traced to the appointment of professors of botany to the medical faculties of universities in 16th century Renaissance Italy, which also entailed the curation of a medicinal garden. However, the objectives, content, and audience of today’s botanic gardens more closely resembles that of the grandiose gardens of antiquity and the educational garden of Theophrastus in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.The early concern with medicinal plants changed in the 17th century to an interest in the new plant imports from explorations outside Europe as botany gradually established its independence from medicine. In the 18th century, systems of nomenclature and classification were devised by botanists working in the herbaria and universities associated with the gardens, these systems often being displayed in the gardens as educational order beds. With the rapid rise of European imperialism in the late 18th century, botanic gardens were established in the tropics, and economic botany became a focus with the hub at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London.
Over the years, botanical gardens, as cultural and scientific organisations, have responded to the interests of botany and horticulture. Nowadays, most botanical gardens display a mix of the themes mentioned and more; having a strong connection with the general public, there is the opportunity to provide visitors with information relating to the environmental issue ...
The Garden in China
Explore the rich, decades-long collaborative relationship between the Missouri Botanical Garden and the leading botanical institutions in China, including the publication of the expansive Flora of China, ethnobotany and climate change research, horticultural training, and more.
Louisiana State University | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:52 1 History
00:02:01 1.1 19th century
00:04:44 1.2 20th century
00:09:22 1.3 21st century
00:10:19 2 Campus
00:10:28 2.1 History
00:12:54 2.2 Architecture and landscape
00:15:06 2.2.1 Contributing Properties
00:15:19 2.3 Campus housing
00:15:57 2.4 Other campuses
00:16:53 3 Academics
00:17:02 3.1 Colleges and schools
00:17:11 3.2 Rankings
00:20:25 4 Libraries
00:23:31 5 Museums
00:24:05 5.1 LSU Museum of Art
00:25:22 5.2 LSU Museum of Natural Science
00:26:42 5.3 LSU Rural Life Museum
00:27:48 5.4 Louisiana Museum of Natural History
00:29:02 6 Student life
00:29:11 6.1 Organizations
00:30:57 6.2 Media
00:33:58 6.3 Greek life
00:34:59 7 Publications
00:36:49 8 Athletics
00:37:40 8.1 National championships
00:39:30 8.2 Facilities
00:41:55 8.3 Rivals
00:44:02 9 Traditions
00:44:10 9.1 Mascot
00:45:50 9.2 Alma mater
00:46:22 9.3 Fight song
00:47:03 10 Louisiana State University Lab School
00:48:08 11 Farm
00:49:43 12 Notable alumni
00:52:46 13 See also
00:52:54 14 Footnotes
00:53:03 15 Further reading
00:53:20 16 External links
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The Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926, consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, and occupies a 650-acre (2.6 km²) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River.
LSU is the flagship school of the state of Louisiana, as well the flagship institution of the Louisiana State University System, and is the most comprehensive university in Louisiana. In 2017, the university enrolled over 25,000 undergraduate and over 5,000 graduate students in 14 schools and colleges. Several of LSU's graduate schools, such as the E.J. Ourso College of Business and the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, have received national recognition in their respective fields of study. Designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution, LSU is also noted for its extensive research facilities, operating some 800 sponsored research projects funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.LSU's athletics department fields teams in 21 varsity sports (9 men's, 12 women's), and is a member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and the SEC (Southeastern Conference). The university is represented by its mascot, Mike the Tiger.
Innovation in Online Learning at Maryville University
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2012 Goosecup Softball Showdown at Maryville University
In recent years the Goosecup Series has become something to look forward to at Maryville University. The faculty and staff do their best to take on the students in athletic events as the semester comes to a close. This year's softball game was one for the record books. Sort of.
Science and technology in Venezuela | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:13 1.1 Ecology
00:15:45 1.2 Epidemiology
00:25:24 1.3 Microbiology
00:29:30 1.4 Immunology
00:34:59 2 Chemistry
00:35:07 2.1 Electro-chemistry
00:37:52 2.2 Food chemistry
00:41:27 2.3 Inorganic chemistry
00:45:04 2.4 Organic chemistry
00:50:56 3 Engineering
00:51:05 3.1 Civil engineering
00:53:29 3.2 Hydraulic engineering
00:54:48 3.3 Food engineering
00:57:28 3.4 Structural engineering
00:59:38 3.5 Petroleum engineering
01:01:01 4 Inventors
01:14:48 5 Mathematics
01:14:57 5.1 Calculus
01:24:00 6 Medicine
01:24:09 6.1 Experimental medicine
01:31:21 6.2 Internal medicine
01:35:25 6.3 Surgery
01:44:10 7 Physics
01:44:19 7.1 Astrophysics
01:49:01 7.2 Particle physics
01:51:45 7.3 Theoretical physics
01:53:27 8 Social sciences
01:53:36 8.1 Education
01:56:20 8.2 Sociology
02:01:11 8.3 Science journalism
02:03:31 9 Technology
02:03:40 9.1 Computer science
02:11:10 9.2 Materials Technology
02:13:18 10 Scientific institutions
02:17:29 11 See also
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Science and technology in Venezuela includes research based on exploring Venezuela's diverse ecology and the lives of its indigenous peoples.
Under the Spanish rule, the monarchy made very little effort to promote education in the American colonies and in particular in those in which they had less commercial interest, as in Venezuela. The country only had its first university some two hundred years later than Mexico, Colombia or Peru.
The first studies on the native languages of Venezuela and the indigenous customs were made in the middle of the XVIII century by the Catholic missionaries. The Italian Jesuit Filippo Salvatore Gilii was one of the first to theorize about linguistic relations and propose possible language families for the Orinoco river basin. The Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling, one of the 12 Apostles of Carl Linnaeus, classificated for the first time the exhuberant tropical flora of the Orinoco river basin.
In the XIX century several scientists visited Venezuela such as Alexander Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Agostino Codazzi, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Mariano Rivero, François de Pons, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Wilhelm Sievers, Carl Ferdinand Appun, Gustav Karsten, Adolf Ernst, Benedikt Roezl, Karl Moritz, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Anton Goering, Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, Alfred Russel Wallace, Jean Chaffanjon, Émile-Arthur Thouar, Jules Crevaux and many others, some of whom are buried in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC) founded on February 9, 1959 by government decree, has its origins in the Venezuelan Institute of Neurology and Brain Research (IVNIC) which Dr. Humberto Fernandez Moran founded in 1955.
Other major research institutions include the Central University of Venezuela and the University of the Andes, Venezuela.
Notable Venezuelan scientists include nineteenth century physician José María Vargas , the chemist Vicente Marcano and the botanist and geographer Alfredo Jahn (1867–1940). More recently, Baruj Benacerraf shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Augusto Pi Sunyer (1955), Aristides Bastidas (1980), Marcel Roche (1987) and Marisela Salvatierra (2002) have been recipients of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for promotion of the public understanding of science. On July 2, 2012, L. Rafael Reif – a Venezuelan American electrical engineer, inventor and academic administrator – was elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.