{"id":877,"date":"2014-01-20T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history2\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-01-20T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:48:34","slug":"cooper-w-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2014\/01\/cooper-w-s\/","title":{"rendered":"William Skinner Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

William S. Cooper<\/strong>
\nBorn:<\/span> Detroit, MI 8\/25\/1884; died 10\/8\/1978
\nEducation:<\/span> Alma Coll. (B.S. 1906), Johns Hopkins (1906-07, no degree), Chicago (Ph.D. 1911)
\nDissertation title:<\/span> The climax forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and its development<\/em> (Bot. Gaz. 55:1-44, 115-140, 189-235)
\nAdviser:<\/span> Henry C. Cowles<\/a> (CD)
\nComments:<\/span> Introduced to ecology by Edgar N. Transeau<\/a> as an undergraduate. Also had early contact with Forrest Shreve<\/a>.
\nTeaching history:<\/span> Stanford 1914-15; Minnesota 1915-51
\nPh. D. Students: <\/span> Rex Daubenmire<\/a>, Robert R. Humphrey<\/a>, Jean H. Langenheim<\/a>, Henry J. Oosting<\/a>.
\nOthers influenced:<\/span> Murray F. Buell<\/a>, Frank E. Egler<\/a>, Raymond L. Lindeman<\/a>.
\nESA offices and honors:<\/span> Vice President 1927; President 1936, Eminent Ecologist 1963
\nESA links:<\/span> Eminent Ecologist<\/a> | Resolution of Respect<\/a>
\nArchived Papers:<\/span> William Skinner Cooper Papers, 1909-1989.<\/a> Elmer L. Anderson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Personal and professional papers of William Skinner Cooper, Professor of Botany at the University of Minnesota. It contains correspondence, articles, manuscripts, publications, reprints, lectures, photo albums, photographic glass negatives, photographic negatives, photographs, maps and field notes. | Some correspondence in the Fuller Papers at UGA\/ESA Archives<\/a>
\nExternal links:<\/span> Smith bios<\/a> | Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William S. Cooper Born: Detroit, MI 8\/25\/1884; died 10\/8\/1978 Education: Alma Coll. (B.S. 1906), Johns Hopkins (1906-07, no degree), Chicago (Ph.D. 1911) Dissertation title: The climax forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and its development (Bot. Gaz. 55:1-44, 115-140, 189-235) Adviser: Henry C. Cowles (CD) Comments: Introduced to ecology by Edgar N. Transeau as an undergraduate. Also had early contact…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92,132],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies","tag-william-skinner-cooper-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}