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Edmund Ware Sinnott
Edmund Ware Sinnott
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He attencled a grammar school that was run as a moclel school supervised by the Bridgewater State Normal School, at which his father spent his life as a geography and geology teacher.
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His moves from one biological field to another substantially broadened his knowledge, and this wide base served him well throughout his life. He held various assistantships, the Austin teaching fellowship, and finally a Sheldon traveling fellowship, which allowed him to spend a year abroad, mainly in Australasia, although he managed to stretch it into a trip around the world.
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After completing his Ph.D., Sinnott spent two years as an instructor in the Harvard Forestry School ancT the Bussey Institution. One must suppose that the latter association was particularly significant because some of the earliest studies in plant genetics in the United States developed there.
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It was widely used for several years, until Trofim Denisovich Lysenko and the Soviet government outlawed it, whereupon it came to be passed from hand to hand like a subversive tract.l "'Leslie Clarence Dunn," in Biographical Memoirs, vol. 49 (Washington, D.C.
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In this he established the foundations of approaches being undertaken in the late twentieth century. In allucling to his direct contributions in the combined fielcls of genetics and morphogenesis, one must not overlook the importance of his less direct contributions in many areas within the field!
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This interest became the central focus of his investigations at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which, to this clay, has maintained a dominant interest in genetic studies. During summers, in association with Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor, Sinnott pursued further basic genetic studies on plants in which he was less particularly interested than had been the case in his study of the cucurbits.
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Sinnott's Botany: Principles and Problems, which went through five editions, the last in cooperation with Katherine Wilson, was widely used but ctid not have the broacT influence of the Principles of Genetics. His encyclopedic Plant Morphogenesis, which was not published until 1960, brought together a phenomenal range of studies on the development of form.
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In The Problem of Organic Form, publishect in 1963, he referred to Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, who published On Growth and Form in 1917, as the patron saint of morphogenesis. If Sir D'Arcy was the patron saint, Edmund Sinnott, another declicatecI scientist, was fully ordainecI and occupied a position somewhat similar to that of Jonathan Edwards in the Great Awakening.
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Professor Sinnott was among the first recipients, and the award to him bore the following citation: "Ecimund Ware Sinnott, morphologist, anatomist, geneticist, and botanical statesman, for his numerous varied and sustained contributions to plant anatomy, histology, evolution, and botanical theory." A later award honoring his contributions to Yale reads: "A loyal son of Harvard, by his stature as a clistinguished scientist, administrator, historian, and great humanist he brought honor to this university and warm friendship to a legion of admiring colleagues both here and throughout the world." He was noted for a view of science that knew no national boundaries and one that knew no division among scientists. He sustained this view with deep knowledge, intensity, articu~areness, and arrao~ty—all linker]
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In a rather tongue-in-cheek article a national magazine once chided Sinnott for taking the crookedness out of crooked squashes and putting it into straight ones thus giving both new characteristics by his genetic manipulations. One hopes in the present day that genetic manipulations and the wisdom and understanding Sinnott brought to science will combine and prevail.
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EDMUND WARE SINNOTT HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS ACADEM I C DEGREES 1908 1910 1913 HONORARY DEGREES 1940 1948 1950 1957 1959 1961 AWARD B.A., Harvard University M.A., Harvard University Ph.D., Harvard University M.A., Yale University D.Sc., Northeastern University D.Sc., Lehigh University D.Sc., University of the South LL.D., University of New Hampshire D.Sc., University of Hartford 1966 William C DeVane Medal APPOINTMENTS 361 1908-1910 Austin Teaching Fellow and Assistant in Botany, Harvard 1911-1912 Austin Teaching Fellow and Assistant in Botany, Harvard 1913-1915 Instructor, Harvard Forestry School and The Bussey Institution 1915-1928 Professor of Botany and Genetics, Connecticut Agri cultural College 1928-1938 Professor of Botany, Barnard College, Columbia 1938-1939 Professor of Botany, Columbia 1940-1956 Sterling Professor of Botany, Yale 1940-1950 Director, Osborn Botanical Laboratory and Marsh Botanical Gardens 1940-1949 Chairman, Department of Botany, Yale 1945-1955 Director of the Division of Sciences, Yale 1945-1956 Director, Sheffield Scientific School, Trustee and President of the Board, Yale 1949- 1950 Department of Plant Science, Yale 1949-1950 Lyman Beecher Lecturer, Yale
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Society for the Study of Development and Growth Sigma Xi Phi Beta Kappa New York Botanical Gardens, Board of Managers (1933-1940)
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Gaz., 51 :258-72. 1912 Pond flora of Cape Cod.
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Nat., 52:269-72. Factors determining character and distribution of food reserve in woody plants.
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The vascular anatomy of hemitrimerous seedlings of Phaseolus vulgaris.
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73:507. The independence of genetic factors governing size and shape in the fruit of Cucurbita pepo.
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Independent Columbia Univ., 3: 1, 4. A developmental analysis of inherited shape differences in Cucurbit fruits.
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USA, 28:36-38. An analysis of the comparative rates of cell division in various parts of developing Cucurbit ovary.
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Bot., 32:151-56. The relation of cell division to growth rate in Cucurbit fruits.
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New York: McGraw-Hill. Cell and Psyche: The Biology of Purpose (The John Calvin McNair lectures)
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19-26. Ames: The Iowa State College Press.
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New York: McGraw-Hill. The Problem of Organic Form.
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