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Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee was an American botanist. He is best known for his research on the poisonous jimsonweed plant and the sexuality of fungi. He was the brother of the Far East scholar George Hubbard Blakeslee.

Early life and education
Albert Francis Blakeslee was born on November 9, 1874, in Geneseo, New York, to Augusta Miranda Hubbard Blakeslee and Francis Durbin Blakeslee, a Methodist minister. Blakeslee attended Wesleyan University, graduating in 1896. At Wesleyan, Blakeslee played several sports and won academic prizes in mathematics and chemistry. ==Career==
Career
After graduating from Wesleyan, Blakeslee taught at the Montpelier Seminary in Vermont, as well as at the East Greenwich Academy. creating artificial polyploids and aneuploids, and studying the phenotypic effects of polyploidy and of individual chromosomes. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Blakeslee married Margaret Dickson Bridges in 1919. Blakeslee died in Northampton, Massachusetts, on November 16, 1954. He was 80 years old. == Awards and legacy ==
Awards and legacy
Blakeslee was awarded the Bowdoin Prize for this discovery of sexual fusion in fungi. the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1929, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1940. ==Selected works==
Selected works
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