Joseph Dalton Hooker Scientist

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years, in succession to his father, William Jackson Hooker, and was awarded the highest honours of British science.

Personal facts

Birth date	June 30, 1817
Birth place	Halesworth
Date of death	December 10, 1911
Place of death	Sunningdale
Education	University of Glasgow

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Scientist

awards	Order of Merit Order of the Star of India Royal Society Linnean Society of London
Field of study	Botany
influenced	William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
influenced by	William Hooker (botanist) George Bentham Charles Darwin