Gilbert Morgan Smith: Difference between revisions

| name = Gilbert Morgan Smith

| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|01|06}}

| birth_place = [[Beloit, Wisconsin]], [[United States]]

| death_date = {{death date and age|1959|07|11|1885|01|06}}

| death_place = Palo Alto Hospital, California (Menlo Park, home)

| nationality = [[United States]] = American

| fields = [[Botany]], [[Phycology]]

| workplaces = [[Stanford University]], [[University of Wisconsin]], [[Pomona College]]

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| alma_mater = [[Beloit College]], [[University of Wisconsin]]

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| notable_students = [[Paul Silva]]

| known_for = Phycology (Algology)

| spouse = = Helen Pfuderer

'''Gilbert Morgan Smith''' (6 January 1885, [[Beloit, Wisconsin]] – 11 July 1959) was a [[botanist]] and [[phycologist]], who worked primarily on the [[algae]]. He was best known for his books, particularly the ''Freshwater Algae of the United States'', the ''Marine Algae of the Monterey Peninsula'' and the two volumes of ''[[Cryptogam]]ic Botany''.

Smith was born on 6 January 1885 to Elizabeth Mayher Smith and [[Erastus G. Smith]] in Beloit, Wisconsin, where his father was Professor of Chemistry at the [[Beloit College|College]]. His parents were both born in Massachusetts and educated there, at [[Mt. Holyoke College]] and [[Amherst College]] respectively. Smith attended Beloit College, where he concentrated on [[botany]] and [[chemistry]], and graduated in 1907. He taught science at the high school in [[Stoughton, Wisconsin]] for the next two years, before beginning graduate studies at the [[University of Wisconsin]] in 1909, where he started work on the algal genus ''[[Oedogonium]]''. He interrupted his studies for a one-year teaching appointment at [[Pomona College]] in 1910-19111910–1911. In 1913 he completed his [[PhD]] and also married [[Helen Pfuderer]]. He remained in the Botany Department at Wisconsin, where he continued to work on algae, especially [[desmids]], eventually reaching the position of associate professor. He was invited to [[Stanford University]] for 1923-19241923–1924, and in 1925 became Professor of Botany there. In 1924 he wrote together with his colleagues a botany textbook, ''[[A textbook of general botany]]'', which gives a broad introduction to the various elements and concepts of general botany.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=L. Wiggins|first=Ira|title=Gilbert Morgan Smith 1885-1959|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|year=1962|pages=5–10}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Gilbert Morgan|title=A Textbook of General Botany|last2=Overton|first2=J.B|last3=Gilbert|first3=E.M.|last4=Denniston|first4=R.H.|last5=Bryan|first5=G.S.|last6=Allen|first6=C.E.|publisher=[[Macmillan Company]]|year=1924}}</ref> In 1950 he became [[Emeritus]] Professor, but remained scientifically active until his death on 11 July 1959.<ref name="NAS">{{cite journal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/smith-gilbert.pdf |journal=Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences |year=1962 |last1=Wiggins |first1=Ira L. |title=Gilbert Morgan Smith 1885-1959 |pages=289–313}}</ref><ref name="Stanford_faculty_resolution">{{cite web|url=http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SmithG.pdf |title=Memorial Resolution - Gilbert Morgan Smith (1885 – 1959) |author1=Harold M. Bacon |author2=Robert M. Page |author3=Ira L. Wiggins |publisher=Stanford Historical Society |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907165131/http://historicalsociety.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SmithG.pdf |archivedate=2014-09-07 }}</ref>

Several species and genera of algae have been named in honor of Gilbert M. Smith:<ref name=NAS /><ref name=taxonomic_literature>{{cite book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333811#page/686/mode/1up |title=Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (TL2) |last1= Stafleu |first1=Frans Antonie |last2=Cowan |first2=Richard S. |publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema |place=Utrecht |edition=2nd |date=1985 |volume=5 |pages=672–674|isbn=9789031302246 }}</ref>

[[Category:20th-century American botanists]]