Legacy
The Asa Gray Award, the highest award of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, was established in 1984 to honor a living botanist for career achievements.
Grayanotoxin and Gray Peak (New York) are named after him. Also, a residential building is named after him on the Stony Brook University campus.
In 2011, the US Postal Service released an Asa Gray postage stamp, as part of its American Scientists collection, along with Melvin Calvin, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Severo Ochoa. This was the third volume of this series.
The standard author abbreviation A.Gray is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.Read more about this topic: Asa Gray
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)