Dow Baxter, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1895
Date of Death: 31-Dec-1965
Profession: mycologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Dow Baxter
- Dow Vauter Baxter (January 16, 1895 – December 31, 1965) was an American mycologist.
- He was an authority on wood-decay fungi, especially the polypores.
- Baxter was a professor of forest pathology at the University of Michigan, where he started employment in 1926.
- The fungus Rhizopogon baxteri was named in Baxter's honor.He also published an illustrated account of fieldwork with two colleagues to study Alaskan forests and forest diseases.
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