Chancey Juday

Chancey Juday

Chancey Juday (1871-1944) together with G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and his close collaborator, Edward A. Birge were pioneers of North American limnology. Birge and Juday founded an influential school of limnology on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin.[1][2]

Juday, born in 1871 at Millersburg, Indiana, completed his A.B. (1896) and A.M. (1897) degrees at Indiana University. Many years later he was also awarded an honorary LL.D.

In 1900 he was hired as a biologist by the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. In 1908 he accepted an appointment as lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, where he began his collaboration with Birge.

Juday was one of the founders of the Limnological Society of America, serving as its president for two years. He was awarded the Leidy Medal (1943) by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and in 1950 shared posthumously the Einar Naumann Medal of the International Association of Limnology with Birge.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Chancey Juday (1871-1944)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Jul., 1944), p. 264
  2. ^ a b Frey, D.G. (ed.), 1963. Limnology in North America. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison
  3. ^ "Naumann-Thienemann Medals". Limnology.org. 2010-01-21. http://www.limnology.org/committees/naumann_thienemann.shtml. Retrieved 2011-09-21.