Albert Francis Blakeslee papers, 1904-1954 1904-1954

American Philosophical Society

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Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Waksman, Selman A. (Selman Abraham), 1888-1973

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Microbiologist. From the description of Selman A. Waksman papers, 1915-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980240 Selman Abraham Waksman was born in Priluka, Russia, on July 22, 1888 to the merchant Jacob Waksman and his wife Fradia (London). Waksman graduated from the Fifth Gymnasium in Odessa, Russia, and came to the United States in 1910. He entered Rutgers College in 1911, where he worked under another Russian emigré, Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, whose primary r...

Hyde, James H. (James Hazen), 1876-1959

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James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959) was a businessman, francophile, and expatriate. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. In 1899 he was left in charge of his father's (Henry Baldwin Hyde, 1834-1899) life insurance company, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. In 1905 Hyde lost control of the company in a publicity scandal that resulted in an investigation of the insurance industry by the New York State. In late December 1905 Hyde sailed for Paris, where he lived until the Nazi occup...

Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944

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Charles B. Davenport was a biologist and director of the Department of Genetics at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1904-1934). From the description of Papers, 1874-1944. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488735 Charles B. Davenport's influence and efforts at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, began in 1898 when he became the director of the summer school of the Biological Laboratory, a position he held until 1923. The lab was administered by...

Flynn, John E. (John Edward), 1897-1965.

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Albert Francis Blakeslee, a geneticist and botanist, served as the director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station from 1943-1954. Albert Blakeslee's boyhood was spent in East Greenwich, Connecticut, where he early exhibited a strong liking for natural history. This leaning was not encouraged by his pragmatic father, who wanted the boy's education to plan for a financially independent career; but his mother was more sympathetic. After the two years of teaching at M...

Davis, Bradley M. (Bradley Moore), 1871-

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The botanist Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) was an authority on American algae. He spent his life in Massachusetts where he worked for the Malden Rubber Shoe Company for over three decades. Despite the fact that Collins’ formal education never extended beyond high school, he became a noted phycologist with a particular interest in New England algae. He is generally considered the foremost American algologist of his time. Frank Shipley Collins was born in 1848 in Bosto...

Cleland, Ralph E. (Ralph Erskine), 1892-1971.

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Albert Francis Blakeslee, a geneticist and botanist, served as the director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station from 1943-1954. Albert Blakeslee's boyhood was spent in East Greenwich, Connecticut, where he early exhibited a strong liking for natural history. This leaning was not encouraged by his pragmatic father, who wanted the boy's education to plan for a financially independent career; but his mother was more sympathetic. After the two years of teaching at M...

Sinnott, Edmund W. (Edmund Ware), 1888-1958

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Botanist and historian; taught botany at University of Connecticut, Barnard, and Yale. From the description of Edmund Ware Sinnott papers, 1923-1981. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319705878 Edmund Ware Sinnott received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1908, an A.M. in 1910, and a Ph.D. in 1913. He was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1908 to 1915. Sinnott was a professor of botany at the Connecticut Agricultural College from 1915 t...

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964

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Deceased 1964. From the description of Oral history interview with Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1963, June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81360299 Physicist (mathematical physics and aeronautics). On faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1907-1917, department chair, 1917-1922; professor of vital statistics, School of Public Health, Harvard University, 1922-1945, and professor emeritus from 1945; president of Social Science Research Council, 1929-1931. From ...

Smith College. Genetics Experiment Station.

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Shull, George Harrison, 1874-1954

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George Harrison Shull (1874-1954) grew up on a farm in Clark County, Ohio. He graduated from Antioch in 1903 and went on to graduate school at the University of Chicago. He was appointed Botanical Assistant at the United States National Herbarium. He also worked at the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry as a Botanical Expert examining the flora and fauna of the Chesapeake Bay and Currituck Sound. He used what he collected for his PhD thesis. He then became interested in the statistical analysis of va...

Buchholz, J. T., (John Theodore), 1888-1951

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Albert Francis Blakeslee, a geneticist and botanist, served as the director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station from 1943-1954. Albert Blakeslee's boyhood was spent in East Greenwich, Connecticut, where he early exhibited a strong liking for natural history. This leaning was not encouraged by his pragmatic father, who wanted the boy's education to plan for a financially independent career; but his mother was more sympathetic. After the two years of teaching at M...

Institut de France.

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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

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Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. From the description of Vannevar Bush papers, 1901-1974 (bulk 1932-1955). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980014 Administrator, engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Vannevar Bush : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569580 Biographical Note ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

University of Connecticut.

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In 1931, the faculty of the University of Connecticut voted to offer comprehensive examinations in most degree programs to graduating seniors, and outgrowth of a report to the Committee on the Study of Honors (11/6/1930). The departments reported the results of the examinations and their recommendations to the Registrar and the Committees on Scholastic Standing and Degrees with Distinction. Degrees would then be awarded without distinction, with distinction or with highest distinction. The progr...

Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-

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William Jacob Robbins was a botanist and plant physiologist. From the description of Papers, 1898-1974. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589265 William Jacob Robbins (1890-1978) was Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden from 1937-1958. He was a specialist in plant physiology and microbiology. Robbins studied Bryophyllum and Hedera helix; the nutritional requirements of filamentous fungi; as well as vitamin synthesis, growth and th...

Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954

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Albert Francis Blakeslee was a geneticist and botanist and was director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station (1943-1954). From the description of Papers, 1904-1954. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298036 American botanist educated at Wesleyan (A.B. 1896) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1900). Instructor in Botany at Harvard 1906-1907; Professor of Botany at Connecticut Agricultural College, 1907-1914, Professor of Botany and Genetics, 1...

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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