Paul Fryxell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul A. Fryxell (born 2 February 1927, Moline, Illinois) is an American botanist.He attended Moline public schools and later Augustana College, graduating with a B.A. in 1949, and Iowa State University (M.S., 1951, Ph.D., 1955). After employment with the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment Station (1952-1955) and the Wichita State University (Asst. Professor of Botany, 1955-1957), he joined the Agricultural Research Service, USDA, with which agency he spent most of his career as a Research Botanist, located on the Texas A&M University campus. He retired from this position in 1994 and became Adjunct Professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Honorary Curator at the New York Botanical Garden.