Henry Chandler Cowles (1869 - 1939)
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Biography
Selected publications
Biography
1869 February 27, born in Kensington, Connecticut
1893 graduated from Oberlin College
1894 appointed instructor of natural science at Gates Colege in Waterloo, Iowa
1895 graduate fellow at University of Chicago
1896 transfers from geology to botany department when Coulter becomes botany chairman
1897 appointed to faculty of botany department, University of Chicago; starts moving up the ladder
1898 earns PhD for thesis on the vegetation of the sand dunes of Lake Michigan
1925 chairman of botany department
1935 retires
1939 September 12, dies in Chicago
Cowles was a great pioneer in studying ecosystems as a whole, and in particular studying how ecosystems were affected by their geography
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Selected Publications
Henry Chandler CowlesPhysiographic Ecology of Chicago and Vicinity
Henry Chandler Cowles (1929) "Obituary of John Merle Coulter" in Botanical Gazette 87 pp. 211 - 217
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