| 词条 | Robert Almer Harper |
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|name = Robert Almer Harper |image = |image_size = 200px |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = January 21, 1862 |birth_place = Le Claire, Iowa |death_date = May 12, 1946 |death_place = Bedford, Virginia |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = United States |ethnicity = |other_names = |known_for = |education = Ph.D. |alma_mater = Oberlin College University of Bonn |credits = |occupation = Botanist |home_town = |party = |boards = |spouse = {{nowrap|Alice Jean McQueen (1899–1909)}} {{nowrap|Helen Sherman (1918–1946)}} |children = |parents = Almer Sexton Harper Eunice Thompson |website = }} Robert Almer Harper (January 21, 1862 – May 12, 1946) was an American botanist. The younger brother of Edward Thompson Harper,[1] Robert was born in Le Claire, Iowa to Congressional Minister Almer Harper and Eunice Thompson.[2] The family moved to Port Byron, Illinois in 1863, where Robert attended local schools. He matriculated to Oberlin College, his father's alma mater, where he graduated with a A. B. in 1886.[2] During the Fall of 1886 he performed graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, then he was professor of Greek and Latin at Gates College in Neligh, Nebraska during 1886–88.[7] In 1889–91 he was an instructor at the Lake Forest Academy.[2] After receiving his A. M. degree from Oberlin, he was appointed professor of botany and geology in 1891–98 at Lake Forest University.[1] During the period 1894 to 1896, took a sabbatical to attend graduate school at the University of Bonn in Germany[11] where he studied cytology and mycology; he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1896.[2] Harper became Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin in 1898, where he would teach until 1911. On June 25, 1899, he was married to Alice Jean McQueen; she died in 1909.[2] After a stint as visiting professor at the University of California in 1911, he was named Torrey Professor of Botany at Columbia University,[1] becoming head of the botany department. The same year, Professor Harper was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[17] A member of the Torrey Botanical Club since 1911, he was named president during 1914–16. He served as president of the Botanical Society of America in 1916.[19] Harper remarried in 1918 to Helen Sherman;[11] they would have one son who became a farmer in Bedford, Virginia. Beginning in 1918, he served as head of the board of scientific directors for the New York Botanical Garden.[7] He was named professor emeritus in 1930, then in 1938 he retired to a farm in Bedford.[11] During his career he was awarded honorary doctorates from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. BibliographyHe published the following works: {{Div col|small=yes|colwidth=24em}}
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Citation | editor1-first = John William | editor1-last = Leonard | editor2-first = Albert Nelson | editor2-last = Marquis | title = Who's who in America | publisher = A. N. Marquis & Company | volume = 5 | page = 821 | year = 1908 | location = Chicago | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eX0QOpl7iBQC&pg=PA821 | postscript= .}} [1][2][3][4][5][6]2. ^1 2 3 {{Citation | editor1-first = John William | editor1-last = Leonard | editor2-first = Albert Nelson | editor2-last = Marquis | title = Who's who in America | publisher = A. N. Marquis & Company | volume = 6 | page = 844 | year = 1910 | location = Chicago | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4EQOO9S5cSUC&pg=PA844 | postscript= .}} 3. ^1 2 {{Citation | title = Robert Almer Harper Papers (PP) | work = Archives of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library | publisher = The New York Botanical Garden | year = 2005 | url = http://library.nybg.org/finding_guide/archv/harper_ppf.html | accessdate= 2013-04-27 | postscript= .}} 4. ^1 {{Citation | title = Presidents of the Botanical Society of America | publisher = The Botanical Society of America | url = http://www.botany.org/about_bsa/president.php | accessdate= 2013-04-26 | postscript= .}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{Citation | title = A Guide to the Robert A. Harper Collection c.1910-c.1930 | publisher = Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | url = http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00083.document | accessdate= 2013-04-26 | postscript= .}} 6. ^1 {{Citation |title = Faculty Awards & Honors |publisher = University of Wisconsin-Madison |url = http://www.ls.wisc.edu/about-faculty-awards.html |accessdate = 2013-04-26 |postscript = . |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130522113034/http://www.ls.wisc.edu/about-faculty-awards.html |archivedate = 2013-05-22 |df = }} }}{{Presidents of the Botanical Society of America|state=collapsed}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Harper, Robert Almer}} 7 : 1862 births|1946 deaths|People from Le Claire, Iowa|American botanists|Oberlin College alumni|University of Bonn alumni|People from Rock Island County, Illinois |
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