{"id":3723,"date":"2015-07-15T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2015-07-15T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T23:09:35","slug":"shelford-v-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/shelford-v-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor E. Shelford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor E. Shelford<\/strong>
\nBorn:<\/span> Chemung, NY 9\/22\/1877; died 12\/27\/1968
\nEducation:<\/span> Univ. of Chicago (B.S. 1903; Ph.D. 1907)
\nDissertation title:<\/span> The life histories and larval habits of the tiger beetles <\/em>(J. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.) 30:157-184)
\nAdvisor:<\/span> C. M. Child<\/a> (see comments)
\nComments:<\/span> Academic mentorship at Chicago in the early 20th century seems to have been rather ambiguous.\u00a0 According to his biographer, Robert Croker, Shelford\u2019s dissertation research, which was not particularly ecological, was supervised by developmental biologist C. M. Childs.\u00a0 However, his candidacy for the Ph.D. degree was recommended to the faculty by the department chair, Charles Otis Whitman. In any case, his ecological ideas were clearly inspired by Henry C. Cowles<\/a>, whom he described as \u201cthe teacher who influenced me most\u201d.
\nTeaching history:<\/span> Chicago 1907-14; Illinois 1914-46
\nPh.D students:<\/span> S. Charles Kendeigh<\/a>
\nOthers influenced:<\/span> Stanley Auerbach<\/a> (M.S.), Eugene P. Odum<\/a> (Ph.D), Robert H. Whittaker<\/a> (Ph.D)
\nESA Offices and honors:<\/span> Founder (1914); First ESA President 1916; Eminent Ecologist 1968.
\nESA links:<\/span> Eminent Ecologist<\/a>
\nArchived Papers:<\/span> Victor E. Shelford Papers 1896-1965<\/a>. University of Illinois Archives, Urbana-Champaign IL. Includes a digitized interview of Shelford done in 1965. | Mentioned in Sigurd F. Olson Papers at Minnesota<\/a>
\nExternal links:<\/span> Smith bios<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a> | Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor E. Shelford Born: Chemung, NY 9\/22\/1877; died 12\/27\/1968 Education: Univ. of Chicago (B.S. 1903; Ph.D. 1907) Dissertation title: The life histories and larval habits of the tiger beetles (J. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.) 30:157-184) Advisor: C. M. Child (see comments) Comments: Academic mentorship at Chicago in the early 20th century seems to have been rather ambiguous.\u00a0 According to his…<\/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-3723","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\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}