{"id":2985,"date":"2015-06-17T23:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T23:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2015-06-17T23:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T23:47:01","slug":"gates-f-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/gates-f-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank C. Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frank C. Gates<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Chicago, IL 9\/12\/1887; died 3\/31\/1955<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Illinois (A.B. 1910); Michigan (Ph.D. 1912)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Winter as a factor in the xerophily of certain evergreen plants<\/em> (Bot. Gaz. 57:445-489)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"F. C. Newcombe\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/newcombe-f-c\/\">F. C. Newcombe<\/a> (confirmed by David Gates)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> According to his son David, Frank Gates was influenced much more strongly by <a title=\"H. A. Gleason\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/gleason-h-a\/\">H. A. Gleason<\/a> than by Newcombe, even though Newcombe was his official adviser at Michigan.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Univ. of the Philippines 1912-15; Carthage Coll. 1916-19; Kansas State 1919-55. Univ. of Michigan Biol. Sta. (Douglas Lake) 1915-54 (summers).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"Aaron J. Sharp\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/sharp-a-j\/\">Aaron J. Sharp<\/a>, <a title=\"John E. Potzger\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/potzger-j-e\/\">John E. Potzger<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> President 1952<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biogr\/Gates_FCpb.pdf\">Presidential bio<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Gates_FC.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived papers:<\/span> Frank Caleb Gates Collection, 1912-1915 and 2000. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. Unpublished biography written by his son David M. Gates; correspondence written from the Philippines to his parents, family members, and his fiance\u0301e; miscellaneous descriptions and drafts of writings pertaining to Philippine vegetation and travels in the Philippines; and photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank C. Gates Born: Chicago, IL 9\/12\/1887; died 3\/31\/1955 Education: Illinois (A.B. 1910); Michigan (Ph.D. 1912) Dissertation title: Winter as a factor in the xerophily of certain evergreen plants (Bot. Gaz. 57:445-489) Adviser: F. C. Newcombe (confirmed by David Gates) Comments: According to his son David, Frank Gates was influenced much more strongly by H. A. Gleason than by Newcombe,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}