Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (died 1954)

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Born: November 9, 1874
Died: November 16, 1954
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birth year: 1874

About 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. At Wesleyan, Blakeslee played several sports and won academic prizes in mathematics and chemistry. Blakeslee was awarded the Bowdoin Prize for this discovery of sexual fusion in fungi.

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The world when Albert Francis Blakeslee was born

Albert Francis Blakeslee was born in 1874. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlineFirst zoo in US opens in Philadelphia
Technology milestoneBarbed wire patented
Notable inventionBarbed wire fencing
World population~1.54B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderUlysses S. Grant
U.S. population41.8M

1874 versus 2026

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Measure	1874	2026
Population	41.8M	341 million

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