Leena Hämet-Ahti (née Hämet, b. 3 January 1931, Kuusamo) is a Finnish botanist, plant taxonomist, and plant collector noted for being Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Helsinki, and later the Director of the university's Botanical Garden.[1] She primarily studies alpine plants of Finland and similar northern hemisphere climates.[2][3][4] Her PhD thesis, defended in 1963, was on mountain birch forests.[5] She participated in the production of the seminal Finnish floras Retkeilykasvio (1984, 1998) and Suomen puu- ja pensaskasvio (1992).
Hämet-Ahti won the Finnish Cultural Foundation prize in 1990[6] and the Finnish Biological Society Vanamo silver Kairamo medal in 2007 "in recognition of her many merits in botany, university teaching, science popularisation and fostering Finnish cultural heritage".[7] Her book Maarianheinä, mesimarja ja timotei won a State Public Information Award in 1987 and her Suomen puu- ja pensaskasvio was selected as Science Book of the Year in 1989.[8]
Hämet-Ahti has been a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 1991.[9] She is married to botanist and lichenologist Teuvo Ahti.[10]
The standard author abbreviation Hämet-Ahti is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[11]
References edit
- ^ Goward, Trevor. "TEUVO AHTI AND LEENA HÄMET-AHTI: A WELLS GRAY HONEYMOON". www.ou.edu. Botanical Electronic News - 436. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
Leena Hämet-Ahti and Teuvo (Ted) Ahti are familiar friends to western Canadian botany. Residents of Finland, Leena was Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Helsinki (later also Director of the university's Botanical Garden), while Ted was Professor of Cryptogamic Botany (later also Academy Professor) at the same university. Beginning in 1958 and 1961, respectively, Ted and Leena made numerous forays to western North America, especially British Columbia, ultimately amassing c. 10,500 specimens from this region. Most of this material is deposited at the Finnish Natural History Museum
- ^ "Tiedenaisia - Vetenskapskvinnor - Women of Learning". www.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
Leena Hämet-Ahti has studied the bioclimatic vegetation zones of the northern hemisphere, especially areas similar to Finland on the northern coniferous zone.
- ^ "Hämet-Ahti: Villiruusuista-1". www.ruususeura.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Frodin, David G. (2001). Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139428651. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
- ^ Leena Hämet-Ahti (1963). "Zonation of the mountain birch forests in northernmost Fennoscandia". Annales botanici Societatis zoologicae-botanicae Fennicae Vanamo 34 (4).
- ^ "Keskusrahaston palkinnot". Suomen kulttuurirahasto. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "Vanamon mitalit". Suomen biologian seura Vanamo. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "Vuoden tiedekirjat". Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian varsinaiset jäsenet" (in Finnish). Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. 2 September 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ Goward, Trevor. "Teuvo Ahti and Leenä Hämet-Ahti: A Wells Gray Honeymoon". Ways of Enlichenment. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Hämet-Ahti.
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