Beryl B. Simpson, Date of Birth

Beryl B. Simpson

American botanist (born 1942)

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1942

Profession: university teacher, botanist, explorer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Beryl Brintnall Simpson (born April 28, 1942) is a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Previously she was an associate curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the Department of Botany.
She studies tropical botany, focusing on angiosperms found in the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.
She was awarded the José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for her decades of work on the subject.