Schultes, Richard Evans

Schultes, Richard Evans
▪ 2002

      American scientist (b. Jan. 12, 1915, Boston, Mass.—d. April 10, 2001, Boston), pioneered the field of ethnobotany, the study of indigenous peoples and their uses of hallucinogenic and medicinal plants. Schultes spent extensive time among native tribes in South America and collected more than 24,000 plant specimens from the Amazon region. Although his books on hallucinogenic plants were widely read by drug experimenters during the 1960s, he dismissed the notion of “mind expansion” espoused by counterculture figures such as Timothy Leary and maintained that such plants should be studied for their medicinal value. Schultes had a long association with Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in biology in 1941 and worked as a curator, lecturer, and professor from 1954 to 1985. Among Schultes's numerous awards were the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1987 and the Linnean Society Gold Medal in 1992.

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