Hugh M. Raup

Hugh Miller Raup (born February 4, 1901 in Springfield, Ohio, died August 10, 1995 in Petersham, Massachusetts) was an American botanist, ecologist and geographer working on natural history and natural resource management in diverse regions - from tropical and temperate to arctic.Raup took his PhD in 1928 from the University of Pittsburgh. He made his entire career at Harvard University, first at the Arnold Arboretum as research assistant from 1932-1938, then in the Department of Botany, where he was professor of botany and Bullard professor in forestry. He served as director of the Harvard Forest from 1946 to 1967. After his retirement from Harvard in 1967, he spend three years as visiting professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University.

Raup spent several summers in the late 1960's in Mestersvig in North-East Greenland investigating the relationship between vegetation and environment in an arctic landscape.