Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960)

Agnes Robertson Arber was a renowned British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She married paleobotanist Edward Alexander Newall Arber in 1909. In 1946, she became the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and only the third woman overall. Her research was publicly recognized when she was the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London (in 1948, at the age of 69) for her contributions to botanical science.