George E. Nichols

George E. Nichols
Born: Southington, CT 4/12/1882; died 6/20/39
Education: Yale (B.S. 1904; Ph.D. 1909)
Dissertation title: A morphological study of Juniperus communis var. depressa (Bein. Bot. Centralbl. 25:201-241)
Adviser: Alexander W. Evans (D)
Comments: Spent a year with Henry C. Cowles at Chicago around 1910
Teaching history: Yale 1909-39
Ph.D. students: Frank E. Egler, Charles E. Olmsted
ESA offices and honors: Founder (1914), Vice President 1920, President 1932
ESA links: ESA Obituary
Archived papers: George E. Nichols Correspondence, 1907-1939 (Department of Botany). Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.