| LC control no. | no2017122914 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cannon, William Austin, 1870-1958 |
| Variant(s) | Cannon, W. A. (William Austin), 1870-1958 |
| Birth date | 1870-09-23 |
| Death date | 1958-01-16 |
| Place of birth | Michigan |
| Field of activity | Plant physiology |
| Affiliation | Stanford University Columbia University Carnegie Institution of Washington |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists |
| Found in | Studies in heredity as illustrated by the trichomes of species and hybrids of Juglans, Oenothera, Papaver, and Solanum, 1909: title page (by William Austin Cannon) The conditions of parasitism in plants, 1910: title page (by [1 other] and W.A. Cannon) The root habits of desert plants, 1911: title page (by William Austin Cannon) General and physiological features of the vegetation of the more arid portions of southern Africa, 1924: title page (by William Austin Cannon) JSTOR Global Plants web site, viewed 1 September 2017 (William Austin Cannon; American plant physiologist; born 1870 in Washington, Michigan; studied at Stanford and Columbia Universities, earning his PhD in 1901; from 1903 served as the first resident investigator at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, resigning in 1924 to take a position as a lecturer in botany at Stanford University but remaining a research associate with the Carnegie Institution through 1934; charter member of the Ecological Society of America in 1915; died 1958) Find a Grave web site, viewed 1 September 2017 (William Austin Cannon, PhD, 23 Sept. 1870-16 Jan. 1958) |
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