{"id":3373,"date":"2015-06-26T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2015-06-26T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T23:06:43","slug":"penfound-w-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/06\/penfound-w-t\/","title":{"rendered":"William T. Penfound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William T. Penfound <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Elyria, OH 11\/8\/1897; died 8\/31\/1984<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Oberlin Coll. (A.B. 1922); Illinois (A.M. 1924; Ph.D. 1931)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Plant anatomy as conditioned by light intensity and soil moisture<\/em> (Amer. J. Bot. 18:558-572)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Walter B. McDougall\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/mcdougall-w-b\/\">W. B. McDougall<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Also influenced by <a title=\"Arthur G. Vestal\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/vestal-a-g\">A. G. Vestal<\/a>, \u201cmy third, and last, Ph.D. chairman\u201d.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Tulane 1927-47; Oklahoma 1947-67; Warren Wilson Coll. 1967-77.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Treasurer 1950; Vice President 1957<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William T. Penfound Born: Elyria, OH 11\/8\/1897; died 8\/31\/1984 Education: Oberlin Coll. (A.B. 1922); Illinois (A.M. 1924; Ph.D. 1931) Dissertation title: Plant anatomy as conditioned by light intensity and soil moisture (Amer. J. Bot. 18:558-572) Advisor: W. B. McDougall (C) Comments: Also influenced by A. G. Vestal, \u201cmy third, and last, Ph.D. chairman\u201d. Teaching history: Tulane 1927-47; Oklahoma 1947-67; Warren&#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-3373","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\/3373","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=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}