American botanist. She worked as an ethnobotanist and wrote published work on hallucinogenic plants. She was also a poet and an early fashion model. She is known for authoring multiple works with compiled and organized information gleaned from thousands of dried plant specimens from the collections of Harvard University and the New York Botanical Garden. She had a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, then went on to Harvard University, where she earned her master's degree in biology in 1957 and a PhD in 1961. For ten years she was a research fellow at the Harvard Botanical Museum. She was married from 1963 to 1972 to banker Arthur G. Altschul with whom she had a son and two daughters, one of which is CBS News reporter Serena Altschul. Her work often was published under the name Siri von Reis Altschul.
American botanist. She worked as an ethnobotanist and wrote published work on hallucinogenic plants. She was also a poet and an early fashion model. She is known for authoring multiple works with compiled and organized information gleaned from thousands of dried plant specimens from the collections of Harvard University and the New York Botanical Garden. She had a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, then went on to Harvard University, where she earned her master's degree in biology in 1957 and a PhD in 1961. For ten years she was a research fellow at the Harvard Botanical Museum. She was married from 1963 to 1972 to banker Arthur G. Altschul with whom she had a son and two daughters, one of which is CBS News reporter Serena Altschul. Her work often was published under the name Siri von Reis Altschul.
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