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|birth_place = [[Tver]]
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|death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|03|05|1908|10|30|df=y}}
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| birth_place = [[Kishinev]], [[Bessarabia]]
|death_place = [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]
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|nationality = USSR
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|field= botany
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| nationality = Russian then Israeli
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|known_for = [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]], [[phytogeography]]
| citizenship =Israeli
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|author_abbrev_bot = Feinbrun
| religion = [[Jewish]]
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| field= botany
| workplaces=
| alma_mater = [[Moscow University]], [[University of Romania]], [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
| doctoral_advisor =
| academic_advisors =[[Alexander Eig]]
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| known_for = [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]], [[phytogeography]], [[genetics]]
| awards = Gold medal from Optima (1986), [[Israel Prize]] (1991)
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| author_abbrev_bot = Feinbrun
| influences = Alexander Eig
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'''Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan''' was a botanist, who became part of the academic staff at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She studied the flora of Israel and published dozens of articles and several analytical flora books. Just after her 91st birthday, she received the 1991 Israel Prize for her unique contribution to Land of Israel studies.
Born Naomi Feinbrun


==Biography==
In 1991, Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan won the [[Israel Prize]] for her research into [[Land of Israel]] studies.
Naomi Feinbrun, was born in Moscow in 1900, her parents, Rachel and Aharon Feinbrun, belonged to [[Hovevei Zion]] and her father was also a member of the 'Benei Zion' association in Moscow. She also had an older sister, Shulamit, and two younger brothers, Miron and Moshe.<ref name =Kirsh>{{cite web| first=Nurit | last=Kirsh | title=Feinbrun-Dotan, Naomi url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinbrun-dotan-naomi | publisher= jwa.org | accessdate=28 October 2014 }}</ref>


The family lived in [[Kishinev]], [[Bessarabia]]. But the street was not within the Kishinev [[pogrom]] boundary. She went to an elementary school, where she was taught Hebrew, for one hour every day. Then she went to a Jewish girls’ high school in Kishinev. In 1907, the family moved to Moscow. After finishing high school in 1918, she went to study at [[Moscow University]]. In 1920, the family moved back to Bessarabia. She carried on her studies at the [[University of Romania]], in [[Cluj]], [[Transylvania]]. In 1923, she received her first degree in Botany. She then became a teacher at a Jewish girls high school, teaching natural sciences.<ref name =Kirsh/>
In 1931, founded the [[Jerusalem Botanical Gardens]] on Mount Scopus, together with Michael Zohary and [[Alexander Eig]].


In 1924, the entire Feinbrun family emigrated to [[Palestine]].<ref name=botanicalgarden>{{cite web| title=Israel Botanical Garden Fights to Save Endangered Native Plants | date=24 August 2012 | url=http://www.jspace.com/news/articles/israel-botanical-garden-fights-to-save-endangered-native-plants/10893 | publisher=jspace.com | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref> Since Naomi was 24, she could not use her parents’ familial immigration certificate. Instead a relative helped her by testifying to the authorities, that she had been a high-school student at the [[Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium]] in [[Tel Aviv]] before leaving for Moscow for a few years. After receiving a recommendation from [[Rachel Katznelson-Shazar|Rachel Katznelson]], Feinbrun started work as a teacher at a school in [[Tel Adashim]] in the [[Jezreel Valley]].<ref name =Kirsh/>
Botanical author of [[Allium truncatum]], [[Allium dumetorum]] [[Scilla hyacinthoides]]


In 1925, Feinbrun went on a study tour for natural sciences teachers to the [[Tavor Mountain]]. Guiding the tour was [[Alexander Eig]]. He encouraged her to do more plant research. He became her mentor and colleague. It is presumed that one of the factors that Feinbrun never married, was due to their close working relationship.<ref name =Kirsh/>
[[Iris regis-uzziae]]


In 1926, she attended the Institute of Agriculture and Natural History in [[Tel Aviv]], (which was directed by [[Otto Warburg (botanist)|Otto Warburg]])<ref>{{cite web | title=Englera 26 | url=http://www.bgbm.org/en/englera/englera-26 | publisher=bgbm.org (Botanisher Garten und botanishes Museum Berlin) | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref> She then accepted the part-time post of guest researcher. During this time, she studied English mostly using G. E. Posts’s book, 'Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai' (Beirut 1898).<ref name =Kirsh/>
==Bibliography==
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*[[Michael Zohary|Zohary, Michael]] & Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan. Flora Palaestina. Part 1. Equisetaceae to Moringaceae; Part 2. Platanaceae to Umbelliferae; Part 3. Ericaceae to Compositae. Jerusalem, Academy of Sciences and Letters. 1966-79. Textvolumes and Plate volumes.
*Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi, and Avinoam Danin, Analytical flora of Eretz-Israel, second edition, CANA, Jerusalem, 1998 (Hebrew).
{{botanist| Fed.}}


When the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] was founded in April 1925, it was later decided that the Institute of Agriculture and Natural History would be part of the new university. Its name was changed to the 'Systematic Botany Branch', with Otto Warburg still the director.<ref name =Kirsh/><ref name=botanicalgarden/>
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== References ==

In 1929, she became an un-[[tenure]]d assistant at the University, with Alexander Eig and [[Michael Zohary]], they moved to [[Jerusalem]]. In 1931, they produced the first analytical flora book (written in Hebrew).<ref name=flower>{{cite web| title=Flower Talk (formerly: "Talk to me with flowers") - 4th issue | date=January 2007 | url=http://flora.org.il/books/flowertalk4/ | publisher=flora.org.il | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> It was later reprinted in English in 1965.<ref>Alexander Eig, Michael Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun{{Google books|E39VMwEACAAJ|Analytical Flora of Palestine}}</ref>

The University started as a research facility without formal teaching. The teaching of sciences started in the early 1930's. In the Department of Botany, genetics was chosen to be one of the six major subjects on the curriculum. Due to Feinbrun's [[cytology]] work with with Hannan Oppenheimer (who was engaged in physiological botany in Rehovot Campus of the University).<ref name =Kirsh/>

From 1930 to 1938, all her botanic publications were in Hebrew or German, and only after 1938 did she start publishing in English.<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1931, she went to the [[Kaiser Wilhelm Institute]] in [[Berlin]] in order to increase her knowledge of genetics and there she worked in the 'Department for Hereditary Research'.<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1931, Alexander Eig founded the [[Jerusalem Botanical Gardens]] on Mount Scopus, together with Michael Zohary and Feinbrun.<ref name=scopus>{{cite web| first=Eleanor | last=Atrakji | title=The Mount Scopus BOTANTICAL GARDEN | date=6 July 2014 | url=http://www.botanic-garden.huji.ac.il/eng_history.htm | publisher=botanic-garden.huji.ac.il | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref>

In 1933, Feinbrun joined a delegation of seven Hebrew University scientists who were invited to [[Iraq]] by the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. Their main purpose was to conduct a survey of the forests of [[Kurdistan]] - preparing an inventory of trees and presenting a proposal for afforestation and for preserving the forests. Other research expeditions in which Feinbrun participated were to [[Transjordan]], the [[Sinai Peninsula]], [[Lebanon]], [[Cyprus]] and, in 1944, to the eastern desert in [[Egypt]].<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1935, she spent two and a half months in the laboratory of Professor [[Alexandre Guilliermond]] at the [[Sorbonne University]] in [[Paris]]. When she returned to Palestine she began teaching genetics and cytology. Until the 1950s she was the only one who taught a course in genetics at the Hebrew University.<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1936, Eig established the 'Palestine Journal of Botany Jerusalem' It later in 1951, became the 'Israel Journal of Botany' and then in 1994 'Israel Journal of Plant Sciences'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Israel Journal of Plant Sciences| url=http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tips19 | publisher=tandfonline.com | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> In which Feinbrun and her colleagues used to publish their works. The first issue of the journal included a [[phytographic]] map based on the three researchers’ many field trips.<ref name =Kirsh/>

During this time, she worked on her doctoral dissertation, “Monography study of the genus [[Bellevalia]],” studying the number and form of chromosomes and using them in the systematic classification of this plant genus. Under the supervision of Dr. Eig. It was published in the 'Palestine Journal of Botany'.<ref>{{cite web| first1=Mehmet Erkan | last1=Uzunhisarcikli | first2=Hayri | last2=Duman | first3=Serkan | last3=Yilmaz | title=A new species of Bellevalia (Hyacinthaceae) from Turkey | date=2 July 2013 | url=http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-13.../bot-37-4-5-1209-29.pdf | format=pdf| publisher=journals.tubitak.gov.tr | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref><ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1938, at the age of 44, Dr. Alexander Eig passes away. After his death, his two assistants, Michael Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun, continue his work of cultivating the [[Mount Scopus Botanical Garden]].<ref name=scopus/>

Also in 1938, she received her Ph.D. degree, but was promoted from instructor to lecturer eventually in 1952. She devoted her full attention to the study of local and Middle Eastern species, mostly grown in her experimental plots and investigated [[cytotaxonomically]].<ref name =Kirsh/>

After 1947, when the state of Israel was established, she and her brothers 'Hebraized' their family name, and she became Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan.<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1953, Feinbrun spent a sabbatical year at the [[Kew Gardens herbarium]] in London and also the herbariums of [[Edinburgh]] and [[Geneva]]. In 1960, she became an associate professor of the University. She joined [[Elisabeth Oldschmidt]], [[Tscharna Rayss]] and [[Hanna Rozin]] (in various fields of biology and medicine), who were the only three women of that rank in the University.<ref name =Kirsh/>

In 1960, she wrote 'Wild plants in the land of Israel'.<ref>{{cite book | last=Feinbrun-Dothan | first= Naomi | year=1960 | title= Wild plants in the land of Israel |url=http://www.amazon.com/Wild-plants-Israel-Naomi-Feinbrun-Dothan/dp/B0007J7GF6 | location=Newton Abbot | publisher= Hakibbutz Hameuchad | isbn=0715305395 | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref>

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In 1966, with [[Michael Zohary|Zohary, Michael]] she wrote 'Flora Palaestina'. (Part 1. Equisetaceae to Moringaceae); (Part 2. Platanaceae to Umbelliferae); (Part 3. Ericaceae to Compositae). Jerusalem, Academy of Sciences and Letters. 1966-79. Textvolumes and Plate volumes.<ref name=flower/>

In the 1970's, several bulbs of an unknown Colchicum were given to her to study. She identified it as a Greek species called '[[Colchicum bowlesianum]]'. Later the bulbs were re-investigated by Karin Persson and were then classed as a separate species. She described the bulbs as a new species in the 'Israeli Journal of Plant Science'. She named it ''[[Colchicum feinbruniae]]'' after Prof. Naomi Feinbrun, who had passed away in the meantime. <ref>{{ cite web| first=Ori | last=Fragman-Sapir | date=October 2012 | title=Colchicum feinbruniae – a Plant of the Golan Heights | url=http://en.botanic.co.il/articles/Show/15 | publisher=en.botanic.co.il | accessdate=28 October 2014 }}</ref>

In 1978 and 1986, she wrote 'Flora Palestinea' (Parts 2 and 3).<ref>{{cite book | last=Feinbrun-Dothan | first= Naomi | year=1987 | title= Flora of Palestine |url=h | location=Newton Abbot | publisher= Hakibbutz Hameuchad | isbn=0715305395 | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=flower/> Which were follow ups of
'Flora Palestinea' Parts 1 (1966) and Part 2 (1972), written by M. Zohary.<ref name=flower/>

In 1986, this book obtained her a gold medal from 'Optima' (Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean area), the International Organization of Mediterranean Sea botanists.<ref>{{cite web| title=OPTIMA Medals | url=http://www.optima-bot.org/awards/default.htm | publisher=optima-bot.org | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref>

In 1991, she wrote with Avinoam Danin, a new and updated analytical flora book.<ref name=flower/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Feinbrun-Dothan |first1= Naomi | first2=Avinoam | last2=Danin| year=1998 | title= Analytical flora of Eretz-Israel |url= | location= Jerusalem | publisher= CANA | isbn=0715305395 | accessdate=29 October 2014}}</ref> This became one of her most important pieces of work.

She won the [[Israel Prize]] (Land of Israel Studies) in 1991.<ref name=HebrewUni>{{cite web| title=Israeli Prizes Awarded to Hebrew University Faculty and Alumin, 1990-1999 | url=http://new.huji.ac.il/en/winner/1007 | publisher= | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| first=Nurit | last=Kirsh | title=Female Geneticists in Israel – A Historical Outlook | url=http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/loeb/Site%20Assets/Pages/Seminars-2012-2013/Kirsh.pdf | format=pdf | date=18 March 2013 | publisher= in.bgu.ac.il (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref>

On the 8 March 1995, Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan died just before her ninety-fifth birthday.<ref name =Kirsh/>

She is the botanical author of ''[[Allium truncatum]]'',<ref>{{cite web| title=Alliaceae Allium truncatum (Feinbrun ) Kollmann & D.Zohary | url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=942813-1 | publisher=ipni.org (International Plant Names Index) | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref> ''[[Allium dumetorum]]'',<ref>{{cite web| title=Allium dumetorum Feinbrun & Szel., Palestine J. Bot., Jerusalem Ser. 4: 146 (1948). | url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295470 | publisher=apps.kew.org | accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref> and ''[[Iris regis-uzziae]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Iridaceae Iris regis-uzziae Feinbrun | url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=439026-1|year=2005| publisher=ipni.org |accessdate=6 August 2014}}</ref>

{{botanist| Feinbrun | Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan}}

Her memory lives on in a number of plants named in her honor by colleagues in Israel and abroad, among them ''[[Astragalus feinbruniae]]'' (1970), ''[[Bellevalia feinbruniae]]'' (1970) and ''[[Colchicum feinbruniae]]'' (1992).

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==References==
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== External links ==
==External links==
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/~книги/БСЭ/Фёдоров%20Андрей%20Александрович/ yandex biographical note] (in Russian)
* [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=2666-1&show_history=false&output_format=normal Andrey Fedorov: IPNI author details]
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| NAME = Feinbrun, Naomi
| NAME = Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Feinbrun, Naomi
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Soviet Russian biologist, botanist, taxonomist and phytogeographer
| SHORT DESCRIPTION =Botanist, University Professor
| DATE OF BIRTH = 17 October, 1908
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1900
| PLACE OF BIRTH = Tver
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Kishinev]], Russia
| DATE OF DEATH = 5 March 1987
| DATE OF DEATH = 8 March 1995
| PLACE OF DEATH = Leningrad
| PLACE OF DEATH = Jerusalem
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[[:Category:1900 births]]
[[:Category:1987 deaths]]
[[:Category:1995 deaths]]
[[:Category:Russian botanists]]
[[:Category:Russian botanists]]
[[:Category:Soviet botanists]]
[[:Category:Israeli botanists]]

[[:Category:Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences]]
[[:Category:20th-century botanists]]
[[:Category:20th-century botanists]]

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Naomi Feinbrun
Born<?-- no precise date known but after March -->1900
Kishinev, Bessarabia
Died<?-- 8 March 1995(1995-03-08) (aged 94) --> 8 March 1995
NationalityRussian then Israeli
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma materMoscow University, University of Romania, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Known fortaxonomy, phytogeography, genetics
AwardsGold medal from Optima (1986), Israel Prize (1991)
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany
Academic advisorsAlexander Eig
Author abbrev. (botany)Feinbrun

Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan was a botanist, who became part of the academic staff at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She studied the flora of Israel and published dozens of articles and several analytical flora books. Just after her 91st birthday, she received the 1991 Israel Prize for her unique contribution to Land of Israel studies.

Biography

Naomi Feinbrun, was born in Moscow in 1900, her parents, Rachel and Aharon Feinbrun, belonged to Hovevei Zion and her father was also a member of the 'Benei Zion' association in Moscow. She also had an older sister, Shulamit, and two younger brothers, Miron and Moshe.[1]

The family lived in Kishinev, Bessarabia. But the street was not within the Kishinev pogrom boundary. She went to an elementary school, where she was taught Hebrew, for one hour every day. Then she went to a Jewish girls’ high school in Kishinev. In 1907, the family moved to Moscow. After finishing high school in 1918, she went to study at Moscow University. In 1920, the family moved back to Bessarabia. She carried on her studies at the University of Romania, in Cluj, Transylvania. In 1923, she received her first degree in Botany. She then became a teacher at a Jewish girls high school, teaching natural sciences.[1]

In 1924, the entire Feinbrun family emigrated to Palestine.[2] Since Naomi was 24, she could not use her parents’ familial immigration certificate. Instead a relative helped her by testifying to the authorities, that she had been a high-school student at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv before leaving for Moscow for a few years. After receiving a recommendation from Rachel Katznelson, Feinbrun started work as a teacher at a school in Tel Adashim in the Jezreel Valley.[1]

In 1925, Feinbrun went on a study tour for natural sciences teachers to the Tavor Mountain. Guiding the tour was Alexander Eig. He encouraged her to do more plant research. He became her mentor and colleague. It is presumed that one of the factors that Feinbrun never married, was due to their close working relationship.[1]

In 1926, she attended the Institute of Agriculture and Natural History in Tel Aviv, (which was directed by Otto Warburg)[3] She then accepted the part-time post of guest researcher. During this time, she studied English mostly using G. E. Posts’s book, 'Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai' (Beirut 1898).[1]

When the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was founded in April 1925, it was later decided that the Institute of Agriculture and Natural History would be part of the new university. Its name was changed to the 'Systematic Botany Branch', with Otto Warburg still the director.[1][2]

In 1929, she became an un-tenured assistant at the University, with Alexander Eig and Michael Zohary, they moved to Jerusalem. In 1931, they produced the first analytical flora book (written in Hebrew).[4] It was later reprinted in English in 1965.[5]

The University started as a research facility without formal teaching. The teaching of sciences started in the early 1930's. In the Department of Botany, genetics was chosen to be one of the six major subjects on the curriculum. Due to Feinbrun's cytology work with with Hannan Oppenheimer (who was engaged in physiological botany in Rehovot Campus of the University).[1]

From 1930 to 1938, all her botanic publications were in Hebrew or German, and only after 1938 did she start publishing in English.[1]

In 1931, she went to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in order to increase her knowledge of genetics and there she worked in the 'Department for Hereditary Research'.[1]

In 1931, Alexander Eig founded the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens on Mount Scopus, together with Michael Zohary and Feinbrun.[6]

In 1933, Feinbrun joined a delegation of seven Hebrew University scientists who were invited to Iraq by the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. Their main purpose was to conduct a survey of the forests of Kurdistan - preparing an inventory of trees and presenting a proposal for afforestation and for preserving the forests. Other research expeditions in which Feinbrun participated were to Transjordan, the Sinai Peninsula, Lebanon, Cyprus and, in 1944, to the eastern desert in Egypt.[1]

In 1935, she spent two and a half months in the laboratory of Professor Alexandre Guilliermond at the Sorbonne University in Paris. When she returned to Palestine she began teaching genetics and cytology. Until the 1950s she was the only one who taught a course in genetics at the Hebrew University.[1]

In 1936, Eig established the 'Palestine Journal of Botany Jerusalem' It later in 1951, became the 'Israel Journal of Botany' and then in 1994 'Israel Journal of Plant Sciences'.[7] In which Feinbrun and her colleagues used to publish their works. The first issue of the journal included a phytographic map based on the three researchers’ many field trips.[1]

During this time, she worked on her doctoral dissertation, “Monography study of the genus Bellevalia,” studying the number and form of chromosomes and using them in the systematic classification of this plant genus. Under the supervision of Dr. Eig. It was published in the 'Palestine Journal of Botany'.[8][1]

In 1938, at the age of 44, Dr. Alexander Eig passes away. After his death, his two assistants, Michael Zohary and Naomi Feinbrun, continue his work of cultivating the Mount Scopus Botanical Garden.[6]

Also in 1938, she received her Ph.D. degree, but was promoted from instructor to lecturer eventually in 1952. She devoted her full attention to the study of local and Middle Eastern species, mostly grown in her experimental plots and investigated cytotaxonomically.[1]

After 1947, when the state of Israel was established, she and her brothers 'Hebraized' their family name, and she became Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan.[1]

In 1953, Feinbrun spent a sabbatical year at the Kew Gardens herbarium in London and also the herbariums of Edinburgh and Geneva. In 1960, she became an associate professor of the University. She joined Elisabeth Oldschmidt, Tscharna Rayss and Hanna Rozin (in various fields of biology and medicine), who were the only three women of that rank in the University.[1]

In 1960, she wrote 'Wild plants in the land of Israel'.[9]

In 1966, with Zohary, Michael she wrote 'Flora Palaestina'. (Part 1. Equisetaceae to Moringaceae); (Part 2. Platanaceae to Umbelliferae); (Part 3. Ericaceae to Compositae). Jerusalem, Academy of Sciences and Letters. 1966-79. Textvolumes and Plate volumes.[4]

In the 1970's, several bulbs of an unknown Colchicum were given to her to study. She identified it as a Greek species called 'Colchicum bowlesianum'. Later the bulbs were re-investigated by Karin Persson and were then classed as a separate species. She described the bulbs as a new species in the 'Israeli Journal of Plant Science'. She named it Colchicum feinbruniae after Prof. Naomi Feinbrun, who had passed away in the meantime. [10]

In 1978 and 1986, she wrote 'Flora Palestinea' (Parts 2 and 3).[11][4] Which were follow ups of 'Flora Palestinea' Parts 1 (1966) and Part 2 (1972), written by M. Zohary.[4]

In 1986, this book obtained her a gold medal from 'Optima' (Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean area), the International Organization of Mediterranean Sea botanists.[12]

In 1991, she wrote with Avinoam Danin, a new and updated analytical flora book.[4][13] This became one of her most important pieces of work.

She won the Israel Prize (Land of Israel Studies) in 1991.[14][15]

On the 8 March 1995, Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan died just before her ninety-fifth birthday.[1]

She is the botanical author of Allium truncatum,[16] Allium dumetorum,[17] and Iris regis-uzziae.[18]

The standard author abbreviation Feinbrun is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[19]

Her memory lives on in a number of plants named in her honor by colleagues in Israel and abroad, among them Astragalus feinbruniae (1970), Bellevalia feinbruniae (1970) and Colchicum feinbruniae (1992).

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Kirsh, Nurit. "Feinbrun-Dotan, Naomi url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinbrun-dotan-naomi". jwa.org. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Missing pipe in: |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b "Israel Botanical Garden Fights to Save Endangered Native Plants". jspace.com. 24 August 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  3. ^ "Englera 26". bgbm.org (Botanisher Garten und botanishes Museum Berlin). Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Flower Talk (formerly: "Talk to me with flowers") - 4th issue". flora.org.il. January 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. ^ Alexander Eig, Michael Zohary and Naomi FeinbrunAnalytical Flora of Palestine at Google Books
  6. ^ a b Atrakji, Eleanor (6 July 2014). "The Mount Scopus BOTANTICAL GARDEN". botanic-garden.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Israel Journal of Plant Sciences". tandfonline.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  8. ^ Uzunhisarcikli, Mehmet Erkan; Duman, Hayri; Yilmaz, Serkan (2 July 2013). "A new species of Bellevalia (Hyacinthaceae) from Turkey" (pdf). journals.tubitak.gov.tr. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  9. ^ Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi (1960). Wild plants in the land of Israel. Newton Abbot: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. ISBN 0715305395. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  10. ^ Fragman-Sapir, Ori (October 2012). "Colchicum feinbruniae – a Plant of the Golan Heights". en.botanic.co.il. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  11. ^ Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi (1987). [h Flora of Palestine]. Newton Abbot: Hakibbutz Hameuchad. ISBN 0715305395. Retrieved 29 October 2014. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)
  12. ^ "OPTIMA Medals". optima-bot.org. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  13. ^ Feinbrun-Dothan, Naomi; Danin, Avinoam (1998). Analytical flora of Eretz-Israel. Jerusalem: CANA. ISBN 0715305395. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  14. ^ "Israeli Prizes Awarded to Hebrew University Faculty and Alumin, 1990-1999". Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  15. ^ Kirsh, Nurit (18 March 2013). "Female Geneticists in Israel – A Historical Outlook" (pdf). in.bgu.ac.il (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  16. ^ "Alliaceae Allium truncatum (Feinbrun ) Kollmann & D.Zohary". ipni.org (International Plant Names Index). Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  17. ^ "Allium dumetorum Feinbrun & Szel., Palestine J. Bot., Jerusalem Ser. 4: 146 (1948)". apps.kew.org. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  18. ^ "Iridaceae Iris regis-uzziae Feinbrun". ipni.org. 2005. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  19. ^ International Plant Names Index.   Feinbrun.

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