{"id":3717,"date":"2015-07-15T22:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2015-07-15T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:50:52","slug":"sharp-a-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/sharp-a-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron J. Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aaron J. Sharp<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> Plain City, OH 7\/29\/04; died 11\/15\/1997<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Ohio Wesleyan (A.B. 1927); Oklahoma (M.S. 1929); Ohio State (Ph.D. 1938).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Taxonomic and ecologic status of eastern Tennessee Bryophytes <\/em>(Amer. Midl. Nat. 21:267-354)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"Glenn W. Blaydes\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/blaydes-g-w\/\">Glenn W. Blaydes<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Also influenced by <a title=\"F. C. Gates\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/gates-f-c\/\">Frank C. Gates<\/a> (during summer course at Mich. Biol. Sta.) <a title=\"Paul Sears\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/sears-p-b\/\">Paul Sears<\/a> (as Master\u2019s student), and <a title=\"Edgar N. Transeau\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/transeau-e-n\/\">Edgar N. Transeau<\/a> (most important influence at Ohio State, but not official adviser).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Tennessee 1938-74<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Member-at-Large 1954-55; Vice President 1960<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/11\/23\/us\/dr-aaron-j-sharp-93-botanist-and-master-of-moss.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT obituary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron J. Sharp Born: Plain City, OH 7\/29\/04; died 11\/15\/1997 Education: Ohio Wesleyan (A.B. 1927); Oklahoma (M.S. 1929); Ohio State (Ph.D. 1938). Dissertation title: Taxonomic and ecologic status of eastern Tennessee Bryophytes (Amer. Midl. Nat. 21:267-354) Advisor: Glenn W. Blaydes (C) Comments: Also influenced by Frank C. Gates (during summer course at Mich. Biol. Sta.) Paul Sears (as Master\u2019s student),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3717","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\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}