American botanist (1919-2017).
Natalie Whitford Uhl (1919–2017) was an American botanist who specialised in palms. The eldest of three sisters, she grew up on a farm in Rhode Island. She graduated B.S in 1940 from Rhode Island State College, publishing two papers on general plant morphology with Vernon Cheadle, her senior year advisor, the same year. In 1940 she went to Cornell University, earning her M.S. in 1943, and her Ph.D. in 1947. While at Cornell, she met and married her husband, Charles Uhl, abandoning botany to start a family. Her work with palms began in 1963, when she returned to Cornell to work with Harold E. M