Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. [SEP] place of birth
Edward Smith Deevey Jr.
Edward Smith Deevey Jr. (3 December 1914 – 29 November 1988), born in Albany, New York, was a prominent American ecologist and paleolimnologist, and an early protégé of G. Evelyn Hutchinson at Yale University. He was a creative pioneer in several areas, including quantitative palynology, cycling of natural isotopes, biogeochemistry, population dynamics, systematics and ecology of freshwater zooplankton, and he promoted the use of life tables in ecology.
In 1938, Deevey received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Yale University
of Botany and Director Emeritus of the University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley: 1953.
- Harry Donald Conway, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University: 1953.
- John Chambers Crowell, Professor Emeritus of Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1953.
- Joseph Dainow, Law: 1953.
- Thaddeus S. Danowski, Biochemistry: 1953.
- John Gilbert Daunt, Physics: 1953, 1958.
- Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., Biology-Plant Science