German botanist (1894-1984).
Hans Melchior (5 August 1894 – 12 March 1984) was a German botanist. Melchior was born in Berlin. He studied botany at University of Berlin, became assistant to G. Haberlandt at the Institute for plant physiology and took his doctor's degree with him in 1920. Later he was assistant at the Botanical Museum and Herbarium, Berlin-Dahlem, on 1 October 1920, the beginning of an uninterrupted career at that institute in which he went through all the ranks, ending as interim director (1958–1959), and having been professor of botany from 1940 teaching at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (no