{"id":3872,"date":"2015-07-22T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2015-07-22T19:32:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:32:58","slug":"whittaker-r-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/whittaker-r-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert H. Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert H. Whittaker <\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born: <\/span> Wichita, KS 12\/27\/20, died 10\/20\/80<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Washburn Univ. (B.A. 1942); Univ. of Illinois (Ph.D. 1948)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains<\/em> (Ecol. Mon. 26:1-80)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"S. Charles Kendeigh\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/kendeigh-s-c\/\">S. Charles Kendeigh<\/a> (C)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments:<\/span> Started at Illinois under <a title=\"V. E. Shelford\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/shelford-v-e\/\">Victor E. Shelford<\/a> with <a title=\"A. G. Vestal\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/vestal-a-g\/\">Arthur G. Vestal<\/a> as a co-adviser to represent botany. Switched to Kendeigh when Shelford retired in 1946<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Washington State 1948-51, Brooklyn Coll. 1954-64, Univ. of California (Irvine) 1966-68, Cornell 1968-1980<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> Walter Westman, <a title=\"Robert K. Peet\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/peet-r-k\/\">Robert K. Peet<\/a>, Susan Bratton, Thomas Wentworth, Owen Sholes, Mark Wilson, Linda Olsvig-Whittaker, Kerry Woods.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Mercer Award 1967; Member-at-Large 1969-71; Vice President 1970-71; Eminent Ecologist 1981<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/mercer1967.pdf\">Mercer Award<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent1981.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/publications\/biographical-memoirs\/memoir-pdfs\/whittaker-robert-h.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NAS bibliographic memoir<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordbibliographies.com\/view\/document\/obo-9780199830060\/obo-9780199830060-0113.xml\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford Bibliographies<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Whittaker\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert H. Whittaker Born: Wichita, KS 12\/27\/20, died 10\/20\/80 Education: Washburn Univ. (B.A. 1942); Univ. of Illinois (Ph.D. 1948) Dissertation title: A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains (Ecol. Mon. 26:1-80) Advisor: S. Charles Kendeigh (C) Comments: Started at Illinois under Victor E. Shelford with Arthur G. Vestal as a co-adviser to represent botany. Switched to Kendeigh when Shelford&#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-3872","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\/3872","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=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}