Awards & Winners

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Date of Birth 30-June-1817
Place of Birth Halesworth
(United Kingdom, Waveney, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Hook.f., D. J Hooker
Profession Botanist
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS 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.

Awards by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joseph Dalton Hooker.

1887


Copley Medal
(For his services to botanical science as an investigator, author, and traveller.)

1885


Clarke Medal
(Botany)