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Taft, Clarence Egbert

Subject ID: 29245

Last Name: Taft
First Name: Clarence
Middle Names: Egbert
Birth Date: 13 November 1906
Birth Place: Romeo, Michigan
Death Date: 31 March 1986
Death Place: Columbus, Ohio
Gender: male
Notes: Portrait in HI portrait collection. Specialist in freshwater algae floristics and control of algae in water supply systems. Michigan State Normal College, AB ‘29; University of Oklahoma, MS ‘31; OSU, PhD ‘34. University of Oklahoma, teaching assistant in botany ‘29-’31; Ohio State University, university sch in botany ‘31-’32, grad assistant in botany, ‘32-’33, chief assistant in botany, ‘33-’35, instructor in botany, ‘35- . See his letter of 14 February 1938 in JHB files. [Notes from Barnhart, John Hendley. Biographical notes upon botanists. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1965, 3 volumes.]

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Alternate Names

  • Taft, Clarence Egbert

Specialties

Phycology