Lester W. Sharp

Lester W. Sharp

Lester Whyland Sharp (April 21, 1887, Saratoga Springs, New York [Charles H. Uhl, "Lester Whyland Sharp", Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1962, Vol. 89, No. 3] —July 17, 1961, Nuevo, California) was an American botanist, a pioneer in cytogenetics. [http://admin.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/psb-1962-8-1.php Obituaries: Lester W. Sharp ] "Plant Science Bulletin, 1962, vol.8, no. 1]

He received B. S. from Alma College in 1908. After two years at The Johns Hopkins University, he transferred to the University of Chicago where he received his Ph. D. in 1912. His postdoctoral work was in association with the University of Louvain, Belgium. Subsequently, he was with Cornell University until his retirement as professor emeritus of botany in 1947.

He authored two classical textbooks in cytology: "An Introduction to Cytology" (1921) and "Fundamentals of cytology" (1943)

He was Vice-President of the American Society of Naturalists in 1924, Vice-President of the Botanical Society of America in 1929 and President in 1930. He served on the Editorial Boards of The American Journal of Botany, Stain Technology and The Botanical Review. He was awarded an honorary D. Sc. by Alma College in 1930 and by the University of Louvain in Belgium in 1957.

In 1958 he received the Botanical Society of America Merit Award. The nomination from the Cornell University said: "His contributions, both by personal investigations and by successive editions of carefully edited textbooks, have made plant cytology a significant field of Botany." [ [http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/bsamerit.php Botanical Society of America Merit Awards] ]

Professional humor

The wit of professor Sharp was also expressed in humorous vein. The most notable examples are his retirement address as President of the Botanical Society entitled "A Nuclear Century", in which he lively reviews studies on the nucleus. ["A Nuclear Century", "Scientific Monthly", 1932, vol. 34, pp. 322–329] Another one is a hoax presented together with graduate student, Cuthbert Fraser, about the most unusual bird from the Gobi Desert, "Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis" [ [http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/eoornis.html "The Woofen-Poof (aka Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis)"] ] ["Eoornis Pterovelox Gobiensis", by Augustus C. Fotheringham, "Quarterly Review of Biology", Vol. 51, 50th Anniversary Special Issue, 1926-1976 (1976), pp. 90-91] , which has later been numerously reprinted in the form of a Ph.D. thesis, e.g, as [Augustus C. Fotheringham (2007) "Eoörnis Pterovelox Gobiensis, lulu.com ISBN 1906267057] .

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