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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
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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
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vein. The most notable examples are his retirement address as president of the Botanical Society entitled "A Nuclear Century", in which he lively reviews studies on the
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Charles H. Uhl, "Lester Whyland Sharp", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1962, Vol. 89, No. 3
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where he received his PhD in 1912. His postdoctoral work was in association with the
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Augustus C. Fotheringham (2007) "EoΓΆrnis Pterovelox Gobiensis,
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and then for Lester W. Sharp, during her graduate studies.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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After two years at 7: 404:Quarterly Review of Biology 168:An Introduction to Cytology 10: 1375: 1349:Cornell University faculty 711:Charles Joseph Chamberlain 616:Frederick Charles Newcombe 544:William Ashbrook Kellerman 214:. In 1958 he received the 180:American Journal of Botany 97:Saratoga Springs, New York 43:Saratoga Springs, New York 1144: 989: 878:George Sherman Avery, Jr. 828: 667: 592:Douglas Houghton Campbell 508:Benjamin Lincoln Robinson 470: 82: 64: 48: 25: 18: 836:Albert Francis Blakeslee 172:Fundamentals of cytology 141:until his retirement as 125:, he transferred to the 123:Johns Hopkins University 73:Johns Hopkins University 1099:Gregory Joseph Anderson 1093:William Louis Culberson 890:William Campbell Steere 556:George Francis Atkinson 526:Beverly Thomas Galloway 502:Lucien Marcus Underwood 1194:Christopher H. Haufler 1051:Mildred Esther Mathias 1039:Ernest M. 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Index

Alma College
Johns Hopkins University
University of Chicago
Saratoga Springs, New York
Nuevo, California
American
botanist
cytogenetics
Alma College
Johns Hopkins University
University of Chicago
University of Louvain
Belgium
Cornell University
professor emeritus
botany
Barbara McClintock
Lowell Fitz Randolph
cytology
American Journal of Botany
Stain Technology
Botanical Review
Alma College
University of Louvain
Belgium
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Botanical Society of America
plant cytology
humorous
nucleus

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