American mycologist, botanist and plant pathologist
Ernst Athearn Bessey
Born
February 20, 1877
Ames, Iowa
Died
July 17, 1957 (1957-07-18) (aged 80)
Citizenship
United States
Alma mater
University of Nebraska, University of Halle
Scientific career
Fields
Mycology and Botany
Doctoral advisor
Georg Klebs
Author abbrev. (botany)
E.A.Bessey
Ernst Athearn Bessey (February 20, 1877 – July 17, 1957) was an American mycologist, botanist and plant pathologist who served as professor of mycology and botany and dean of the graduate school at Michigan State University. He was the son of another famous botanist, Charles Edwin Bessey.
Bessey was born in Ames, Iowa, where his father was professor of botany at Iowa Agricultural College. In 1884 he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska when his father moved to the University of Nebraska. Bessey attended the University of Nebraska, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1896, a Bachelor of Science in 1897, and a Master of Arts in 1898. He then moved to Germany where he did his doctoral work at the University of Halle under the supervision of Georg Klebs. After completing his Ph.D. in 1904 he served as an agricultural explorer United States Department of Agriculture visiting Russia, Central Asia and Algeria. After returning to the United States he worked for the USDA and Louisiana State University before moving to Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1910.
Bessey remained at Michigan State until his retirement in 1946. He served as acting dean of the Division of Applied Science from 1927 to 1930 and dean of the graduate school from 1930 to 1944. He was a founding member of the Mycological Society of America and served as its president in 1941.
Ernst Bessey Hall at Michigan State University is named in his honor.
The standard author abbreviation E.A.Bessey is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
Ernst Athearn Bessey (February 20, 1877 – July 17, 1957) was an American mycologist, botanist and plant pathologist who served as professor of mycology...
American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911. Bessey's son, ErnstBessey was Professor of Mycology and Botany at Michigan State University...
Botanist Institutions University of Basel University of Halle University of Heidelberg Doctoral advisor Julius von Sachs Doctoral students ErnstBessey...
and Co. p. 158. American Naturalist Vol. 18 # 5 (May 1884) p. 530. Ernst A. Bessey Ph.D., Morphology and Taxonomy of the Fungi (Philadelphia: The Blakiston...
Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-8686-135-4. Bessey, Ernst Athearn (1950). Morphology and Taxonomy of Fungi. Philadelphia: The...
Texas. Citations Kearney & Peebles 1942, p. 113. Kartesz 2010. Sources Bessey, Charles Edwin; Webber, Herbert John (1890). Report of the botanist on the...
Bibcode:1941Natur.148..516G. doi:10.1038/148516a0. S2CID 32300065. Bessey, Ernst A. (1952). "Review of The British Smut Fungi (Ustilaginales) by G. C...
published in 1686, Tome I, Libr. I, Chap. XX, page 40 (Quoted in Mayr, Ernst. 1982. The growth of biological thought: diversity, evolution, and inheritance...
Systematic Botany, University of South Florid. Retrieved 2008-06-10. Bessey, Ernst A. (1908). "The Florida Strangling Figs". Missouri Botanical Garden...
Anderson was invited to present the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University with Ernst Mayr, discussing the role of genetics on plant systematics. However, unlike...
Leverhulme Lecture For excellence in chemical research and knowledge George Bessey Award Lecture The award recognises the efforts of dedicated and exceptional...
Cornell University Library. p. 7. Retrieved April 27, 2007. "Charles Edwin Bessey Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine". History of Iowa State: People...
"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-08. Caspari, Ernst. (1950). Principles of Genetics by Edmund W. Sinnott, L. C. Dunn, Th. Dobzhansky...
For services to the British community in Peru. Alexander Leonard Frank Bessey, lately Honorary British Consul, Ouagadougou, Burkina. Edward Phil Anthony...
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