Lester W. Sharp
Lester W. Sharp | |
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Born | Lester Whyland Sharp April 21, 1887 Saratoga Springs, New York |
Died | July 17, 1961 Nuevo, California | (aged 74)
Alma mater | Alma College Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago |
Occupation(s) | Botanist, professor |
Lester Whyland Sharp (April 21, 1887 in
He received a BS from
Barbara McClintock worked as a research assistant for Lowell Fitz Randolph and then for Lester W. Sharp, during her graduate studies.[4]
He authored two classical textbooks in cytology: An Introduction to Cytology (1921) and Fundamentals of cytology (1943)
He was vice-president of the American Society of Naturalists in 1924, vice-president of the Botanical Society of America in 1929 and president in 1930. He served on the editorial boards of the
In 1915 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5] In 1958 he received the Botanical Society of America Merit Award. The nomination from the Cornell University said: "His contributions, both by personal investigations and by successive editions of carefully edited textbooks, have made plant cytology a significant field of Botany."[6]
Professional humor
The wit of professor Sharp was also expressed in
References
- ^ Charles H. Uhl, "Lester Whyland Sharp", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1962, Vol. 89, No. 3
- ^ a b Obituaries: Lester W. Sharp Plant Science Bulletin, 1962, vol.8, no. 1
- ^ Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 2245.
- ^ Colonna, Federica Turriziani. "Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)". embryo.asu.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- ^ "Botanical Society of America Merit Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- Scientific Monthly, 1932, vol. 34, pp. 322–329
- ^ "The Woofen-Poof (aka Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis)"
- ^ "Eoornis Pterovelox Gobiensis", by Augustus C. Fotheringham,
Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 51, 50th Anniversary Special Issue, 1926-1976 (1976), pp. 90-91
- ISBN 1-906267-05-7