Stevens, Frank Lincoln, 1871-1934

LC control no.	no2010034759
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Stevens, Frank Lincoln, 1871-1934 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Stevens, F. L. (Frank Lincoln), 1871-1934 Stevens, Frank L, 1871-1934 Stevens, Frank, 1871-1934
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New Brunswick (N.J.) Racine (Wis.) Columbus (Ohio) Chicago (Ill.) Raleigh (N.C.) Puerto Rico Urbana (Ill.)
Birth date	1871
Death date	1934
Place of birth	Onondaga County (N.Y.)
Field of activity	Mycology Plant diseases
Affiliation	University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) University of Puerto Rico (1903-1966) North Carolina State University University of Chicago Racine College (Wis.) Rutgers University
Profession or occupation	Mycologists Plant pathologists College teachers University and college faculty members
Found in	The Microthyriaceae, 1939: t.p. (Frank Lincoln Stevens) Agriculture for beginners, 1903: t.p. (F.L. Stevens) OCLC, March 1, 2010 (hdg.: Stevens, Frank Lincoln, 1871-1934; usage: Frank Lincoln Stevens, F.L. Stevens) Global Plants (website), viewed Oct. 6, 2021: Stevens, Frank Lincoln (1871-1934) (American mycologist and plant pathologist. Stevens' early career focused on research into diseases of crops, while he later concentrated on mycological taxonomy, particularly looking at the fungi of tropical countries, and collecting much material. Frank Lincoln Stevens was born in Onondaga County, New York, and spent his early years on a farm near Syracuse. Advised by David G. Fairchild at the Agricultural Experiment Station of Geneva, New York, he decided to study botany (especially plant pathology) at Rutgers University. Following his graduation Stevens taught at Racine College and at the high school in Columbus, Ohio, where he was able to make use of the laboratories at Ohio University. It was at this time he became interested in the parasitic fungus Albugo, after a woodland ramble. He went on to write his PhD thesis on this fungus at the University of Chicago, completed in 1900, at which time the university awarded him a travelling fellowship, allowing him to study at Bonn, Halle and Naples. On his return to the U.S., Stevens was appointed instructor in biology at North Carolina State University, and became Professor of Botany and Vegetable Pathology in 1902. With his colleague John Galentine Hall he published an important textbook, Diseases of Economic Plants, in 1910, two years before he resigned from his post at the university. The next two years (1912-1914) he spent at the University of Puerto Rico as Dean of Agriculture, where he collected Puerto Rican fungi and prepared his book, The Fungi Which Cause Plant Disease. Back to the U.S. Stevens was appointed Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Illinois, where he remained until his death in 1934.) <https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000028586>
Associated language	eng