Herbert Hice Whetzel (1877 - 1944)
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Biography
attends Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana
1902 earns bachelor degree, becomes Atkinson's assistant at Cornell
1906 appointed assistant professor at the New York State College of Agriculture (at Cornell)
1907 founds the first department of plant pathology in the USA, according to the Dictionary.
1909 promoted to full professor and director of the department of botany
Dörfelt & Heklau credit Whetzel with laying the groundwork for the study of phytopathology in North America, adding that he dallied with the Sclerotiniaceae in his later years, but this work was unfinished at the time of his death.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
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Selected Publications
Edgar W. Olive & Herbert Hice Whetzel (1917) "Endophyllum-like rusts of Porto Rico" in American Journal of Botany 4:1 pp. 44 - 52
Herbert Hice Whetzel (1926) "North American species of Sclerotinia: I." in Mycologia 18:5 pp. 224 - 235
Herbert Hice Whetzel (1929) "North American species of Sclerotinia: II." in Mycologia 21:1 pp. 5 - 32
F. D. Kern, Herbert Hice Whetzel & H. W. Thurston, Jr. (1933) "Annotated index of the rusts of Colombia" in Mycologia 25:6 pp. 448 - 503A list of all species known to occur in Columbia, with host index.
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