Aaron Goldberg

Aaron Goldberg (November 4, 1917 – December 13, 2014) was an American botanist and parasitologist. He died in December 2014 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 97.

Ph.D. (1962) George Washington University He received his B.A. in 1939 from Brooklyn College, an M.S. in 1954 from De Paul University, and a Ph.D. from George Washington University in 1962. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture as a parasitologist till 1972. Since then he has been a Research Associate in Botany with the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington, D.C. Member of the Botanical Society of America.

He is best known for the Goldberg system, a treatise on the classification, evolution, and phylogeny of the Monocotyledon and Dicotyledons.

• Aaron Goldberg (1967). "The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae)". Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 34, pt. 5.
• Aaron Goldberg (1986). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 58: 1–314.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Aaron Goldberg (1989). "Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Monocotyledons" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 71: 1–73.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Aaron Goldberg (2003). "Character Variation in Angiosperm Families" (PDF). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 47: 1–185.
• Aaron Goldberg and Harry A. Alden (2005). Taxonomy of Haptanthus Goldberg & C. Nelson, Systematic Botany, 30(4): pp. 773–778
• Aaron Goldberg. "Genus Melochia (Sterculiaceae)", Flora North America in press