Prescillano Zamora

Prescillano M. Zamora (January 4, 1933 – August 3, 2010) was a Filipino biologist who is notable for his work on plant anatomy-morphology and pteridophyte biology. He is also well known for his studies on vascular plants due to which his followers added additional species to some plant's genus'.^{[clarification needed]} From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the Rockefeller Foundation at Cornell University and was also held a grant from the National Science Foundation which he had for three years. From 1977 to 1980 he held a position of a Professorial Chair in the University of the Philippines.^[1] A native of San Nicolas, Pangasinan, Zamora completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the Philippines and obtained his graduate degrees from Cornell. He died of a heart attack on August 3, 2010.^[2]

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