{"id":3865,"date":"2015-07-22T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2015-07-22T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:04:43","slug":"wherry-e-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/wherry-e-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgar T. Wherry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edgar T. Wherry<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:\u00a0 <\/span>Philadelphia, PA 9\/10\/1885; died 5\/19\/1982<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education: <\/span>Pennsylvania (B.S. 1906; Ph.D. 1909)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title: <\/span><em> Contributions to the mineralogy of the Newark group in Pennsylvania<\/em> (Trans. Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 7, February, 1910)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> ?<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Started his career as a mineralogist and chemist but became interested in soil acidity and plant-soil relations and eventually moved entirely into botany.\u00a0 He wrote several popular field guides to eastern wildflowers and ferns.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Lehigh 1908-13; Penn 1930-1955<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> <a title=\"Robert B. Platt\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/platt-r-b\/\">Robert B. Platt<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwrc.usgs.gov\/resshow\/perry\/bios\/WherryEdgar.htm\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USGS memoir<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_T._Wherry\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar T. Wherry Born:\u00a0 Philadelphia, PA 9\/10\/1885; died 5\/19\/1982 Education: Pennsylvania (B.S. 1906; Ph.D. 1909) Dissertation title: Contributions to the mineralogy of the Newark group in Pennsylvania (Trans. Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 7, February, 1910) Advisor: ? Comments: Started his career as a mineralogist and chemist but became interested in soil acidity and plant-soil relations and eventually&#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-3865","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\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}