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Edgar Nelson Transeau

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American botanist & phycologist (1875-1960)
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Edgar Nelson Transeau (1875–1960) was an American botanist and phycologist who served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the Ecological Society of America. Transeau was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on October 21, 1875, and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1897. He received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1904, and in 1915 joined the faculty of Ohio State University where he spent the majority of his career, becoming professor emeritus in 1946. The standard author abbreviation Transeau is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

  1. Sears, Paul B.; Kelting, R. B.; Slobodkin, L. B.; Stearns, F. W.; Goodnight, C. J. (1960). "Resolution of Respect: Edgar Nelson Transeau 1875-1960, President (1924) of the ESA". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 41 (2): 62–64. JSTOR 20165532.
  2. International Plant Names Index.  Transeau.

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Presidents of the Botanical Society of America
1894–1924
1925–1949
1950–1974
1975–1999
2000–present
Presidents of the Phycological Society of America
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