Chancey Juday
Chancey Juday (born May 5, 1871 in Millersburg , Indiana , † March 30, 1944 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American biologist and co-founder of limnology .
C. Juday graduated from Indiana University with a BA in 1896 and an MA in 1897. From 1900 to 1901 he taught for the first time at the University of Wisconsin , after interludes from 1903 to 1904 at the University of Colorado and from 1904 to 1905 at the University of California , he returned in 1905 Wisconsin back. This started a long and fruitful collaboration with EA Birge, who was 21 years his senior . Together they founded the Wisconsin School of Limnology on Lake Mendota and explored this lake . With the joint publication of their studies in 1911, they laid an important foundation for limnological science.
Juday became President of the Ecological Society of America in 1927 and President of the American Limnological Society from 1935 to 1936, and President of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters from 1937 to 1939. In 1950 he received the Naumann Medal .
Web links
- Literature by and about Chancey Juday in the catalog of the German National Library
- ASLO: Photo by EA Birge and C. Juday, founders of the Wis. School of Limnology
- History of Limnology: Birge and Juday
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| SURNAME | Juday, Chancey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biologist and co-founder of limnology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Millersburg , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Madison , Wisconsin |