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Ian Baldwin

A man with short brown hair and glasses, wearing a dark sweater over a striped shirt, stands against a plain background.

American chemical ecologist, now at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. As a graduate student with Jack Schultz at Dartmouth in the early 1980s, he co-authored a paper showing that damaged poplar and maple seedlings could induce defensive chemistry in undamaged neighbours through airborne signals — the first credible demonstration of plant-to-plant communication, dismissed for years before being vindicated.

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