{"id":3571,"date":"2015-07-03T23:38:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2015-07-03T23:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:38:19","slug":"platt-r-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/platt-r-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert B. Platt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert B. Platt <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Knoxville, IN 1\/19\/13; died 3\/11\/1998<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Emory and Henry Coll, (B.A. 1933); Peabody Coll. (M.S. 1935); Univ. of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1948)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Shale barrens of the mid-Appalachian Mountains<\/em>. (Ecol. Mon. 21:269-300)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Edgar T. Wherry\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wherry-e-t\/\">Edgar T. Wherry<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Other influences:<\/span> <a title=\"Stanley A. Cain\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cain-s-a\/\">Stanley A. Cain<\/a>, <a title=\"Henry J. Oosting\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/oosting-h-j\/\">Henry J. Oosting<\/a>, Jesse Shaver<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Radford Coll. 1940-41; Emory Univ. 1948-78<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Mercer Award 1952; Vice President 1966; President 1972-73<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/mercer1952.pdf\">Mercer Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/biogr\/Platt_RBpb.pdf\">Presidential bio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert B. Platt Born: Knoxville, IN 1\/19\/13; died 3\/11\/1998 Education: Emory and Henry Coll, (B.A. 1933); Peabody Coll. (M.S. 1935); Univ. of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1948) Dissertation title: Shale barrens of the mid-Appalachian Mountains. (Ecol. Mon. 21:269-300) Advisor: Edgar T. Wherry (C) Other influences: Stanley A. Cain, Henry J. Oosting, Jesse Shaver Teaching history: Radford Coll. 1940-41; Emory Univ. 1948-78 ESA&#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-3571","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\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}