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Valentine V, May (Valerie May) (1944-) was a botanist

Valentine V, May was born in 1944 and was also know as Valerie May. She was the first person to identify the phenomenon of toxic blue-green algae and its cause.

Her first paper on the topic was published in 1966 but her findings were largely ignored until a major outbreak of the algae in the 1990s was responsible for a large amount of livestock deaths.