Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher & mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, 1st Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science & the 1st woman or person of colour to become a full professor on Stanford’s biology faculty. She literally wrote the textbook on Californian seaweed & 🧵
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