Hans Jenny Born: Basel, Switzerland, 2/7/1899; died 1/9/1992 Education: ETH Zurich (Dipl. Agric. 1922; D.Sc. 1927. Primary specialty: Soils Ph.D. Students: Jack Major Others influenced: W. Clark Ashby, Arthur R. Kruckeberg External links: Wikipedia
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Born: Cambridge, England 1/30/1903; died 5/17/1991 Education: Cambridge (B.S. 1924; M.S. 1928) Dissertation title: Although Hutchinson was awarded several honorary degrees, he did not have an earned doctorate. It just goes to show genealogy isn’t everything. Teaching History: Yale 1928-71 Selected Ph. D. Students: Gordon Riley, Edward Deevey, W. T. Edmondson, John Brooks, Frederick E. Smith, Howard…
Robert R. Humphrey Born: Palo Alto, CA 6/14/1904; died 2/13/2002 Education: Minnesota (B.A. 1929; M.A. 1930; Ph.D. 1933) Dissertation title: A study of Fouquieria splendens and Idria columnaris (Amer. J. Bot. 22:184-207) Adviser: W. S. Cooper (C) Comments: Spent a year (1929-30) with Forrest Shreve at Carnegie Desert Research Lab. Teaching history: Univ. of Arizona 1948-1977 ESA links: Resolution of…
Don W. Hayne Born: died 5/18/2000 Education: Michigan (Ph.D. 1967) Dissertation title: Variation of the oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) in parts of porthern Florida and southern Alabama, with a discussion of the reliability of laboratory-bred stocks as samples of wild populations Primary specialty: Small mammals and biometrics Ph. D. Students: Frank Golley
John W. Harshberger Born: Philadelphia, PA 1/1/1869; died 4/27/1929 Education: University of Pennsylvania (BS 1982; Ph.D. 1983) Dissertation title: Maize: an botanical and economic study Adviser: ? Teaching history: Pennsylvania 1892-1929 Comments: Wrote an autobiography, “Life and Work of John Harshberger, Ph.D.: An Autobiography” (Philadelphia, 1928). ESA offices and honors: Founder (1914); Vice President 1917; President 1926 ESA links: ESA…
Herbert C. Hanson Born: Faribault, MN, 4/18/1890; died 3/5/1962 Education: Minnesota (A.B. 1914); Nebraska (A.M. 1916; Ph.D. 1925) Dissertation title: A study of the vegetation of northeastern Arizona (Univ. of Neb. Studies, Vol. 24, no. 3-4) Adviser: John E. Weaver? Comments: R.J. Poole, a taxonomist, is given as much credit as Weaver in the acknowledgements in the published version of…
Katherine L. Gross Born: Madison, WI 10/28/53 Education: Iowa State (B.S. 1975); Michigan State (Ph.D. 1980) Dissertation title: Ecological consequences of differences in life history characteristics among four “biennial” plants (Oecologia 48:209-213; Ecology 63:921-931) Adviser: Patricia A. Werner Teaching History: Ohio State 1980-87; Michigan State 1987-present ESA offices and honors: Vice President 1992-93; President 1998-99; Distinguished Service Citation 2008; Fellow…
Robert E. Gordon Born: New York, NY 6/20/1925; died 1996 Primary specialty: Herpetology Education: Emory (A. B. 1949); Georgia (M. S. 1950); Tulane (Ph.D. 1956) Dissertation title: The biology and biodemography of Anolis carolinensis carolinensis Voigt Adviser: Fred R. Cagle (confirmed by J. A. MacMahon) Comments: Also influenced by Eugene Odum (M. S.) Teaching History: Northeastern Louisiana St. 1954-58; Notre…