Missouri Botanical Garden and professor of Botany at Washington University in St Louis, at a point where he had become a world recognized authority on plant growth. He moved from Pasadena to St. Louis with his wife Catharina and their two children, Hans and Anneka. After the opening of the Climatron, the world's first geodesic dome greenhouse, Went's vision of a renewed Missouri Botanical Garden eventually came into conflict with that of its board of trustees, and he resigned as director in 1963. After two years as simply Professor of Botany at Washington University, in 1965 he then became director of the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada-Reno, where he continued his research on desert plants for the remainder of his career, and on occasion lectured in the Department of Biology, University of Nevada-Reno. He remained active in many fields of botany until his death in 1990. References External links Frits Went biography David P.D. Munns, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest to Control Climate in the Cold War (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). 1903 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Dutch botanists 20th-century Dutch biologists Scientists from Utrecht (city) Washington University in St. Louis faculty Utrecht University alumni Dutch phytopathologists Missouri Botanical Garden directors American nonprofit executives 20th-century American businesspeople Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies Dutch expatriates in the United States