Dawson, Elmer Yale, 1918-1966

LC control no.	n 50045113
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dawson, Elmer Yale, 1918-1966 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Dawson, E. Yale (Elmer Yale), 1918-1966
Other standard no.	0000000110412285 16016436 Q5322232
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1918-03-31
Death date	1966-06-22
Place of birth	Creston (Iowa)
Place of death	Red Sea
Profession or occupation	Botanists Algologists
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Found in	His Field observations on the Algae of the gulf of California, 1941. Wikipedia, May 18, 2020 (E. Yale Dawson; Elmer Yale Dawson (March 31, 1918 - June 22, 1966) was an American botanist; born in Creston, Iowa; Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1942; research associate for the Allan Hancock Foundation, a division of University of Southern California for 10 years, 1945 to 1955. He was appointed professor of biology at USC in 1956, a position that he held till 1964. From 1958 to 1962 he worked as research director of the Beaudette Foundation, a division of Biological research. He was director of the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1963 to 1966; in 1964, he became secretary of the Charles Darwin Foundation, located on the Galápagos Islands. He drowned on June 22, 1966, while diving for seaweed in the Red Sea near Hurghada. He devoted his life to a study of benthic marine algae, particularly Rhodophyta that grow in tropical and subtropical Pacific. He published books about algae, cacti, and succulents. The standard author abbreviation E.Y.Dawson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name)
Associated language	eng