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Answered by riddhi66
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Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was a distinguished American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the
five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia , Plantae , Fungi, Protista , and Monera in 1969. [1][2] He also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome-types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation...
Born in Wichita, Kansas , he obtained a B.A. at Washburn Municipal College (now Washburn University ) in Topeka, Kansas, and, following military service , his Ph.D. at the
University of Illinois . He held teaching and research positions at Washington State College in Hanford, Washington, the Hanford National Laboratories (where he pioneered use of
radioactive tracers in ecosystem studies), Brooklyn College ,
University of California, Irvine, and, finally Cornell University .....

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Robert Harding Whittaker= Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was a distinguished American plant ecologist, active in the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969.[1][2] He also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome-types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation.
Robert Harding WhittakerBornDecember 27, 1920
Wichita, Kansas, USDiedOctober 20, 1980(aged 59)
Ithaca, New York, USANationalityUnited StatesAlma materUniversity of IllinoisKnown forgradient theory in ecology
five-kingdom systemAwardsMayhew Prize (2002)Scientific careerFieldsEcologyInstitutionsCornell University
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