Diana Beresford Kroeger

Published: Sept. 19, 2008, 11:05 p.m.

b'Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical and agricultural researcher, lecturer, and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. She is the author of "Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest" and several other books.'