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Sandra Knapp is an American botanist and plant taxonomist. She is a professor of botany at the Natural History Museum in London, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She is best known for her work on the plant family Solanaceae, which includes tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers.
Knapp was born in 1956 in the United States. She earned her bachelor's degree in botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, and her master's degree in botany from the University of California, Davis in 1981. She then earned her Ph.D. in botany from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985.
Knapp has held various positions at the Natural History Museum in London since 1985, including curator of the herbarium, head of the botany department, and professor of botany. She is also a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Knapp has published numerous papers on the taxonomy and evolution of the plant family Solanaceae, and has authored or co-authored several books on the subject. She is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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She is a member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Innovator of the Year panel, a member of the Shenzhen Declaration for Plant Sciences Committee, and a member of the National Geographic Grants Committee. In May 2017 Knapp became the president-elect of the Linnaean Society, and in May 2018 succeeded Prof. Paul Brakefield as president. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2016 she was awarded, jointly with Georgina Mace, the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society. In 2009 she was presented with the Peter Raven Outreach Award for public engagement with science by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the UK National Biodiversity Network's John Burnett Medal. The University College London and Stockholm University have both awarded Knapp with honorary professorships.
She has authored several books on botany or botanical exploration and has written over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles. The French-language edition of her book Potted Histories, entitled Le Voyage Botanique, was awarded the Prix Pierre-Joseph Redouté in 2004, a prize that was established in 2000 in honour of the best French-language plant book in a given year.
In October 1999, Knapp discussed her book Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Wallace in the Amazon on the BBC World Service's Science in Action. Knapp was an interviewed guest on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves in July 2013 in a segment about Alfred Russel Wallace. She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time in May 2014 to explain photosynthesis. In October 2014 Knapp was a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was the South American freeze-dried potato product Chuño. A year later, in Natural History Heroes, a series collaborating between Radio 4 and the Natural History Museum, London she chose "Miss - not Dr - Alice Eastwood" as her hero. In July 2017, Knapp was a guest on the BBC World Service's The Forum, where she discussed Carl Linnaeus. In October 2019 Knapp reappeared on In Our Time, this time to talk about hybrids.
Since 1992, Knapp has been active as a scientific researcher in the botany department of the Natural History Museum in London. She is involved in field work and research in the herbarium. She also contributes to taxonomic research of the Geminta and Dulcamaroid clades, in particular in the context of the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project Solanum, a worldwide research project to map nightshades. She participates in a collaborative project to clarify the genomic evolution of Nicotiana. She is also active in involving the private sector in the implementation of the biodiversity treaty in Gran Chaco. She is an editor of the Flora Mesoamericana publication series, a project aimed at mapping as many plants as possible found in Mesoamerica .
Knapp has a B.A. in botany from Pomona College (1978) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1986), where she worked with Michael D. Whalen.
Sandra Diane Knapp FLS (born 1956) is an American born botanist. She is currently a merit researcher of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London. While working at the Natural History Museum, London she has overseen the Flora Mesoamericana inventory of Central American plants. She has published several books on botanical subjects as well as a significant number of scientific articles. In 2016 she was awarded the Linnean Medal.
