Life Chronology

--born in New York City, on 26 April 1911.
--1932: B.S., University of Chicago
--1934: M.S., University of Minnesota
--1936: Ph.D., Yale University
--1936-1937: research fellow, Yale
--1937-1944: assistant professor, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse
--1941-1944: director, Chicle Development Company Experimental Station, Belize
--1941-1945: serves in the United States Air Force
--1945: makes Aton Forest, Norfolk, Connecticut, his primary residence
--1947-1948: associate professor, University of Connecticut
--1951-1955: research associate, Department of Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
--1954: publishes "Vegetation Science Concepts. 1. Initial Floristic Composition, a Factor in Old-field Vegetation Development" in Vegetatio
--1956-1958: Guggenheim fellow
--1962: visiting professor, Wesleyan University
--1963-1966: chairman, Right of Way Resources America
--1965: visiting professor, Yale University
--1970: publishes his The Way of Science; a Philosophy of Ecology for the Layman
--1975: publishes his The Plight of the Rightofway Domain: Victim of Vandalism
--1978: receives Ecological Society of America's Certificate of Merit
--1980-1986: advisor to the Electric Power Research Institute
--1990: founder, incorporator, and first president of Aton Forest, Inc.
--dies at North Canaan, Connecticut, on 26 December 1996.

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