Albert Francis Blakeslee

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Albert Francis Blakeslee together with Sophia A. Satina

Albert Francis Blakeslee (born November 9, 1874 in Geneseo , New York , † November 16, 1954 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) was an American botanist and phytogeneticist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Blakeslee ".

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Blakeslee began his studies at Wesleyan University , where he graduated in 1896. In 1900 he received his master's degree from Harvard University and received his doctorate there in 1904. From 1904 to 1907 he studied at the University of Halle-Wittenberg . After a professorship at Connecticut Agricultural College, the forerunner of the University of Connecticut , he was in 1915 a staff member and from 1936 director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington . From 1941 he was a professor at Smith College .

Blakeslee discovered in 1904 at Jochpilzen the Heterothallic . In 1921 he produced a haploid plant of the thorn apple for the first time . During his time at Smith College , he studied the ingredients and evolution of the thorn apple. In 1937 Blakeslee introduced colchicine into genetic research by demonstrating the polyploidizing effect of this substance.

He was a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1924 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 1929 . In 1940 Blakeslee was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Since 1935 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

Publications

  • AF Blakeslee (1904): Sexual reproduction in the Mucorineae , Proc. Americ. Acad. Arts Sci. 40: 205-319.
  • AF Blakeslee (1922): Variations in Datura Due to Changes in Chromosome Number , The American Naturalist, 56 (642): 16-31.
  • Sophia Satina and AF Blakeslee (1926): The Mucor Parasite Parasitella in Relation to Sex , Proc Natl Acad Sci US A. 12 (3): 202-207.
  • AF Blakeslee and AG Avery (1937): Methods inducing doubling of chromosomes in plants , The Journal of heredity 28: 393-411.
  • AF Blakeslee, S. Satina and AG Avery (1940): Utilization of induced periclinal chimeras in determining the constitution of organs and their origin from three germ layers in Datura , Science 91: 423.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Albert F. Blakeslee. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 24, 2015
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 21, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Blakeslee, Albert Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist and phytogeneticist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneseo , New York
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1954
Place of death Northampton , Massachusetts