William Chambers Coker
William Chambers Coker (October 24, 1872 - June 26, 1953) was an American botanist.
Biography
He was born at Hartsville, South Carolina on October 24, 1872. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1894 and took postgraduate courses at Johns Hopkins University and in Germany. He taught for several years in the summer schools of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., and in 1902 became associate professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. He established the Coker Arboretum in 1903. He was made professor in 1907 and Kenan professor of botany in 1920. In 1903, he was chief of the botanic staff of the Bahama Expedition of the Geographical Society of Baltimore. Professor Coker was a member of many scientific societies and the author of The Plant Life of Hartsville, S. C. (1912); The Trees of North Carolina (with Henry Roland Totten) (1916); and The Saprolegniaceae of the United States (1921). Besides these he contributed numerous articles on morphology and botany to scientific journals. He died on June 26, 1953 and was buried on June 29, 1953.[1]
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| 1950–1974 |
- Albert Francis Blakeslee (1950)
- Katherine Esau (1951)
- Edgar Anderson (1952)
- Ralph Hartley Wetmore (1953)
- Adriance Sherwood Foster (1954)
- Oswald Tippo (1955)
- Harriet Baldwin Creighton (1956)
- George Sherman Avery, Jr. (1957)
- Frits Warmolt Went (1958)
- William Campbell Steere (1959)
- Kenneth Vivian Thimann (1960)
- Vernon Irving Cheadle (1961)
- George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (1962)
- Constantine John Alexopoulos (1963)
- Paul Jackson Kramer (1964)
- Aaron John Sharp (1965)
- Harold Charles Bold (1966)
- Ralph Emerson (1967)
- Arthur Galston (1968)
- Harlan Parker Banks (1969)
- Lincoln Constance (1970)
- Richard Cawthorn Starr (1971)
- Charles Heimsch (1972)
- Arthur John Cronquist (1973)
- Theodore Delevorya (1974)
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| 1975–1999 |
- Peter Hamilton Raven (1975)
- Barbara Frances Palser (1976)
- Warren Herbert Wagner, Jr. (1977)
- William August Jensen ( 1978)
- Herbert George Baker (1979)
- Charles Bixler Heiser (1980)
- Patricia Kern Holmgren (1981)
- Ernest M. Gifford, Jr. (1982)
- Barbara Donahue Webster (1983)
- Mildred Esther Mathias (1984)
- William Louis Stern (1985–86)
- Ray Franklin Evert (1986–87)
- Shirley Cotter Tucker (1987–88)
- W. Hardy Eshbaugh (1988–89)
- David Leonard Dilcher (1989–90)
- Beryl B. Simpson (1990–91)
- William Louis Culberson (1991–92)
- Gregory Joseph Anderson (1992–93)
- Grady Linder Webster (1993–94)
- Harry T. Horner (1994–95)
- Barbara Anna Schaal (1995–96)
- Daniel Crawford (1996–97)
- Nancy Dengler (1997–98)
- Carol C. Baskin (1998–99)
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| 2000–present |
- Douglas E. Soltis (1999–2000)
- Patricia G. Gensel (2000–1)
- Judy Jernstedt (2001–2)
- Scott D. Russell (2002–3)
- Linda E. Graham (2003–4)
- Allison A. Snow (2004–5)
- Edward L. Schneider (2005–6)
- Christopher H. Haufler (2006–7)
- Pamela Soltis (2007–8)
- Karl Niklas (2008–9)
- Kent Holsinger (2009–10)
- Judith Skog (2010–11)
- Stephen G. Weller (2011–12)
- Elizabeth Kellogg (2012–13)
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