American biologist
Jack Myers
Born (1913-07-10 ) July 10, 1913Died December 28, 2006(2006-12-28) (aged 93) Scientific career Fields biology
John Edgar "Jack" Myers (July 10, 1913 – December 28, 2006) was an American molecular biologist and writer of popular science.
Biography
Born in Pennsylvania , Myers graduated from Juniata College in 1933, and gained a Masters from Montana State University in 1935, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1939.[1]
Myers joined the University of Texas in 1941, teaching until 1980. He continued researching as an emeritus professor until 1999. His areas of expertise were photosynthesis , phototropism and algae . His work included research on growing algae in space.[1]
He was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1975. In 1998, he was awarded the Founders Award by the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology. Other awards include The Darbaker Prize from the Botanical Society of America in 1959.[1]
He was the senior science editor of Highlights for Children from 1958 until his death in 2006, aged 93. The magazine, a general interest magazine for children, had been started by his parents in 1946, and had a circulation of about two million in 2006.[2]
Presidents of the Phycological Society of America
1946-1974 1975-1999
Norma J. Lang (1975)
John A. West (1976)
Michael J. Wynne (1977)
Elisabeth Gantt (1978)
Clinton J. Dawes (1979)
Elenor R. Cox (1980)
Larry R. Hoffman (1981)
Annette W. Coleman (1982)
James R. Rosowski (1983)
Carole A. Lembi (1984)
Michael Neushul, Jr. (1985)
Beatrice Marcy Sweeney (1986)
Susan D. Waaland (1987)
Eugene F. Stoermer (1988)
Russell L. Chapman (1989)
Lois Ann Pfiester (1990)
J. Robert Waaland (1991)
Robert Gordon Sheath (1992)
M. Dennis Hanisak (1992)
John P. van der Meer (1993)
Larry B. Liddle (1994)
Richard L. Meyer (1995)
Lynda J. Goff (1996)
Rick McCourt (1998)
Paul Kugrens (1999)
2000-present
Steven N. Murray (2000)
Charles Yarish (2001)
A. Michelle Wood (2002)
David F. Millie (2003)
Thierry B. R. Chopin (2004)
Curt M. Pueschel (2005)
Morgan Vis (2006)
Richard E. Triemer (2007)
Robert A. Andersen (2008)
Charles Amsler (2009)
Paul K. Hayes (2010)
Susan H. Brawley (2011)
Juan M. Lopez-Bautista (2012)
Linda Graham (2013)
John W. Stiller (2014)
Rick Zechman (2015)
Paul W. Gabrielson (2016)
Tim A. Nelson (2017)
Alison Sherwood (2018)
Kirsten M. Müller (2019)
Dale Casamatta (2020)
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