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Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth

Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth rather than just read about it. In short: Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth (1874–1957) was a German taxonomist, botanist and pteridologist responsible for "Initia florae venezuelensis" in 1928, and numerous contributions to Adolf Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich" on Geraniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Lecythidaceae, and other families. He worked for more than 50 years at the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.

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Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth (1874–1957) was a German taxonomist, botanist and pteridologist responsible for "Initia florae venezuelensis" in 1928, and numerous contributions to Adolf Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich" on Geraniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Lecythidaceae, and other families. He worked for more than 50 years at the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. As part of his training in plant systematics he visited the herbaria at Kew, Brussels, Geneva, Paris and Utrecht. He was not only a botanist, but was well-versed in zoology, chemistry and geography. While his main interests in botany were systematics and phytogeography, he also ventured into other disciplines and in his final 30 years was working on problems in bacteriology and the growth of Ascomycetes, the source of antibiotics and yeast. His own extensive herbarium collection of some 26 000 specimens was lost when the Dahlem Botanical Museum was destroyed by bombing and fire on the nights of 1 and 2 March 1943. The catastrophe was keenly felt by Knuth who had closely identified with the Museum and had experienced his botanical grounding there. Also destroyed were all his notes and manuscripts including his monograph on the Elaeocarpaceae, ready to go to press. In addition to frequent collecting trips in Germany, Knuth travelled to locations such as the Carpathian Mountains and Algeria.

Some Publications Knuth, R, A Engler, L Diels, H Stubbe, K Noack. 1956. "Das Pflanzenreich". H. 105 = IV. 219. Barringtoniaceae. Ed. Engelmann Pax, FA; Knuth, RGP. 1905. "Primulaceae". Mit 311 Einzelbildern in 75 Figuren und 2 Verbreitungskarten (Das Pflanzenreich. Hft. 22.) "Über die geographische Verbreitung und die Anpassungserscheinungin der Gattung Geranium im Verhältnis zu ihrer systematischen Gliederung", Inaugural-Dissertation... von Reinhard Knuth. 1902. Ed. W. Engelmann. 47 pp. He is commemorated in Elaeocarpus knuthii Merr. 1951, Euphorbia knuthii Pax, Eschweilera knuthii J.F.Macbr. 1940, Oxalis knuthii Herter 1931, Oxalis knuthii Pittier 1939. Knuth is denoted by the author abbreviation R.Knuth when citing a botanical name.

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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In research: Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Reinhard Gustav Paul Knuth is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1874 births, 1957 deaths, 20th-century German botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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