George Albert Llano was born Jorge Alberto Cecilio Perez y Llano in Havana, Cuba on November 22, 1911. He attended Cornell University, where he received a B.S. in 1935. Llano received an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College in New York in 1939. He began his Ph.D. work at Harvard University, but was interrupted by World War II. After the war, Llano continued his Ph.D. work at Vaxbiologiska Institut in Uppsala, Sweden and finished his Ph.D. in botany at Washington University in St. Louis in 1949, while also working in Alaska collecting lichens with his mentor, Per Scholander. Llano worked as a biologist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and taught at Pennsylvania Military College, Harvard, and Washington University. He served on the staff of the U.S. National Museum, the National Academy of Sciences, the Library of Congress and at the Office of Antarctic Programs of the National Science Foundation. After an active retirement, during which he traveled and lectured, Llano died on February 9, 2003, at the age of 92, while on board a cruise ship headed for the Falkland Islands.
From the description of George A. Llano collection, ca. 1948. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 244396706
