{"id":3200,"date":"2015-06-24T01:56:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2015-06-24T01:56:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:56:35","slug":"major-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/major-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jack Major <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Salt Lake City, 3\/15\/1917; died 2\/13\/2001<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Utah State (B.S. 1942); California (Ph.D. 1950)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>The relationship between factors of soil formation and vegetation, with an analysis from the west slope of Mt. Hamilton, California<\/em><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser:<\/span> <a title=\"Hans Jenny\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/jenny-h\/\">Hans Jenny<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> UC Davis 1955-82 (became emeritus)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph. D. Students:<\/span> <a title=\"Richard H. Waring\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/waring-r-h\/\">Richard H. Waring<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Distinguished Service Citation 1975<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/service1975.pdf\">Distinguished Service Citation<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Major_J.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Major Born: Salt Lake City, 3\/15\/1917; died 2\/13\/2001 Education: Utah State (B.S. 1942); California (Ph.D. 1950) Dissertation title: The relationship between factors of soil formation and vegetation, with an analysis from the west slope of Mt. Hamilton, California Adviser: Hans Jenny Teaching history: UC Davis 1955-82 (became emeritus) Ph. D. Students: Richard H. Waring ESA offices and honors: Distinguished&#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-3200","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\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}