Benjamin M. Duggar Born: Gallion, AL 9/1/1872; died 9/10/1956 Primary specialty: Plant physiology and pathology Advisor: George F. Atkinson Influenced by: Stephen A. Forbes Ph. D. Students: John T. Curtis Comments: Discoverer of chlortetracycline (aureomycin) External links: Wikipedia | NAS Memoir
Edward S. Deevey Born: Albany, NY 12/3/1914; died 11/29/1988 Education: Yale (BA 1934; Ph.D. 1938) Dissertation title: Studies on Connecticut lake sediments (American Scientist 237: 691-724) Adviser: G. Evelyn Hutchinson Teaching History: Rice 1939-43; Yale 1946-68; Dalhousie 1968-71; Florida 1971-88 Ph. D. Students: Estella B. Leopold, Daniel A. Livingstone, J. Gordon Ogden Others influenced: Margaret B. Davis ESA offices and…
Margaret B. Davis Born: Boston, MA 10/23/1931; died 5/22/2024 Education: Radcliffe (AB 1953), Harvard (Ph.D. 1957) Dissertation title:Â Late-glacial pollen diagrams from Central Massachusetts. (Am. J. Science 256:540-570) Adviser: H. M. Raup Comments: Did post-docs with H. M. Raup (Harvard 1957-58), H. Lowenstamm (Caltech 1959-60), E. S. Deevey (Yale 1960-61) Teaching History: University of Michigan 1966-1973, Yale 1973-76, Univ. Minnesota 1976-2000…
Rexford Daubenmire Born: Coldwater, OH 12/12/1909; died 8/27/1995 Education: Butler Univ. (B.S. 1930); Colorado (M.S. 1932); Minnesota (Ph.D. 1935) Dissertation title: The big woods of Minnesota: its structure and relation to climate, fire, and soils. (Ecol. Mon. 6:235-268) Adviser: W. S. Cooper (C) Comments: Also influenced by R. C. Friesner and S. A. Cain as undergraduate and Francis Ramaley, his…
John T. Curtis Born Waukesha, WI 9/20/1913; died 6/7/1961 Education: Carroll Coll. (B.A. 1934); Wisconsin (M.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1937) Dissertation title: Some phases of symbiotic and non-symbiotic orchid seed germination (not published ?) Adviser: Benjamin M. Duggar (confirmed by R. Mclntosh) Teaching history: Wisconsin 1937-39; Pennsylvania 1940; Wisconsin 1940-61. Ph. D. Students: Grant Cottam, Orie L. Loucks, Robert P. McIntosh,…
William M. Crocker Born: 1876; died 1950 Primary specialty: Plant physiology Ph. D. Students: Homer C. Sampson?
John M. Coulter Born: 11/20/1851, Ningpo, China; died 12/23/1928 Primary specialty: Plant taxonomy and morpholoogy Ph. D. Students: Henry C. Cowles External links: Wikipedia
Walter P. Cottam Born St. George, UT 3/3/1894; died 12/23/1988 Education: Brigham Young (A.B. 1916), Wisconsin (M.S. 1921), Chicago (Ph.D. 1926) Dissertation title: An ecological study of the flora of Utah Lake, Utah (not published) Adviser: H. C. Cowles (confirmed by Grant Cottam) Teaching history: BYU 1920-31; Utah 1931-62 Ph. D. Students: Others influenced: Grant Cottam (son), Calvin McMillan (M.S.)…