Peter M. Kareiva Born: Utica, NY 9/20/1951 Education: Duke (B.A. 1973); UC Irvine (M.M. 1976); Cornell (Ph.D 1981) Dissertation title: Non-migratory movement and the distribution of herbivorous insects : experiments with plant spacing and the application of diffusion models to mark-recapture data Adviser: Richard B. Root Teaching History: Brown 1980-84; Washington 1984-1999 Ph. D. Students; others influenced: Alison G. Power…
Duncan S. Johnson Born: Cromwell, CT 7/21/1867; died 2/16/1937 Education: Wesleyan (B.S. 1892); Johns Hopkins (Ph.D. 1898) Dissertation title: On the development of the leaf and sporocarp in Marsilia quadrifolia, L Primary specialty: Embryology and plant development Teaching history: Johns Hopkins 1898-1937 (?) Ph. D. Students: Forrest Shreve
Willis L. Jepson Born: Vacaville, CA 8/19/1867; died 2/7/1946 Primary specialty: Botany; plant taxonomy Ph. D. Students: H. L. Mason External links: Wikipedia
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…