Roscoe Pound

Roscoe Pound
Born: Lincoln, NE 10/27/1870; died 7/1/64
Education: Nebraska (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1889; Ph.D. 1897); Harvard Law (1889-90, no degree (?))
Dissertation title: The phytogeography of Nebraska (presented jointly with F. E. Clements)
Advisor: Charles E. Bessey (D)
Teaching history: (none in ecology)
Comments: For several years Pound was simultaneously a law professor and the Director of the Nebraska Botanical Survey. Later he went over to the dark side fully and became Dean of the Harvard Law School. Roscoepoundia, a genus of fungi, was named for him.
External links: Wikipedia