William Carl Burger
{{short description|American botanist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| workplaces = Field Museum of Natural History
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Cornell University (MSc)
Washington University in St. Louis (PhD)
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William Carl Burger (born 1932) is an American botanist known for his contributions to the Costa Rican flora. Burger described 104 plant species, primarily in the Lauraceae and Moraceae.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=W.C.Burger&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query&back_page=plantsearch International Plant Names Index]
Burger received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1953, an M.Sc. from Cornell University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1961. He served as Chair of the Botany Department at the Field Museum.{{Cite web|title=Burger, William Carl (1932-)|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000001180|access-date=2021-11-21|website=plants.jstor.org}}
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Category:21st-century American botanists
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni
Category:Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Category:People associated with the Field Museum of Natural History
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