1. Jens Christen Clausen was a Danish-American botanist, geneticist, and ecologist.
11 Facts About Jens Clausen
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Jens Clausen is considered a pioneer in the field of ecological and evolutionary genetics of plants.
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Jens Clausen's parents were farmers and at age 14 he took responsibility for the family farm and was largely educated at home with the assistance of a local school teacher.
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Jens Clausen studied hybridization patterns across a range of environments and described introgression of genes between species.
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Jens Clausen returned to the California in 1931 as a staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Plant Biology at Stanford, California.
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Jens Clausen would become a naturalized citizen of the United States during 1943.
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Jens Clausen produced one additional book about his work based on the Messenger Lectures he gave at Cornell which was published in 1951 as Stages in the Evolution of Plant Species.
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Jens Clausen was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; he was a member of the Botanical Society of America, and the Society for the Study of Evolution.
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Jens Clausen was a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Jens Clausen was knighted in the Order of the Danneborg by Frederik IX of Denmark.
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Jens Clausen was a member of the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, California.