William Emerson Knight

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William Emerson Ritter (born November 21, 1856 in Columbia County (Wisconsin) , † January 10, 1944 ) was an American biologist . He coined the term organicism .

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William Emerson Ritter was the son of Horatio Ritter from New York, who had settled as a farmer in Wisconsin a few years before he was born. After graduating from Oshkosh Normal School in Wisconsin , he began studying at Harvard University in 1890 . From 1893 he taught biology at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1899 he was elected president of the California Academy of Sciences . From May to July 1899 he took part in the expedition to explore Alaska organized by Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) . In 1904, Ritter began exploring the deep sea in San Diego . He campaigned for the establishment of an oceanographic station in La Jolla and in 1912 became the first director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography . He held this position until 1922. In 1913, Ritter was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 1919 he introduced the term organicism .

Fonts (selection)

  • The parietal eye in some lizards from the western United States . In: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology . Volume 21, pp. 201-340, 1891
  • The ascidians collected by the United States fisheries bureau steamer Albatross on the coast of California during the summer of 1904 : Berley 1907; digitized version
  • War, Science and Civilization . Sherman, French & Co., Boston 1915
  • The Higher Usefulness of Science and Other Essays . Gorham Press, Boston 1918; digitized version
  • The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life .
  • The Scientific Method of Reaching Truth .
  • The Natural History of Our Conduct . - with Edna Watson Bailey
  • The Organizational Theory of Conception . - with Edna Watson Bailey
  • An Organizational Theory of Consciousness . RG Badger: Boston 1919; digitized version
  • The Unity of the Organism; or, the Organizational Conception of Life . Boston 1919; Volume 1 , Volume 2
  • Charles Darwin and the golden rule . Storm Publishers, New York 1954 - with Edna Watson Bailey

proof

  • Deborah Day: Ritter: William Emerson Ritter Biography In: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives. Biographies, autobiographies, memoirs . 1997; PDF online

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personal data
SURNAME Knight, William Emerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia County, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1944