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==Academic career== |
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After completing his undergraduate work at Caltech, Thomas spent the next decade at [[Stanford University]] (MA, 1949; PhD, 1959). His masters thesis (”The taxonomy and distribution of the Onagraceae of the Sonoroan Desert”) focused on the [[Onagraceae]] family of flowering plants in the [[Sonoran Desert]]. A year later, he joined Stanford botanist and faculty member [[Ira Loren Wiggins]] to study the plants in [[Point Barrow, Alaska]]. Wiggins, who became director of the Arctic Research Laboratory, later co-authored ”A Flora of the Alaskan Arctic Slope” (1962) with Thomas. From 1956 to 1958, Thomas taught at [[Occidental College]]. In 1958, Stanford hired him as an assistant curator for the [[Dudley Herbarium]]. With Wiggins as his advisor, Thomas completed his dissertation, informed by the plant collections of [[William Russel Dudley]], on ”The vascular plants of the Santa Cruz Mountains of central California” in 1958, with Stanford publishing it as a book in 1961.Timby 1998, p. 6. |
After completing his undergraduate work at Caltech, Thomas spent the next decade at [[Stanford University]] (MA, 1949; PhD, 1959). His masters thesis (”The taxonomy and distribution of the Onagraceae of the Sonoroan Desert”) focused on the [[Onagraceae]] family of flowering plants in the [[Sonoran Desert]]. A year later, he joined Stanford botanist and faculty member [[Ira Loren Wiggins]] to study the plants in [[Point Barrow, Alaska]]. Wiggins, who became director of the Arctic Research Laboratory, later co-authored ”A Flora of the Alaskan Arctic Slope” (1962) with Thomas. From 1956 to 1958, Thomas taught at [[Occidental College]]. In 1958, Stanford hired him as an assistant curator for the [[Dudley Herbarium]]. With Wiggins as his advisor, Thomas completed his dissertation, informed by the plant collections of [[William Russel Dudley]], on ”The vascular plants of the Santa Cruz Mountains of central California” in 1958, with Stanford publishing it as a book in 1961.Timby 1998, p. 6. |
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He lectured at Stanford from 1961 to 1969. He became associate curator of the Dudley Herbarium in 1962. Soon after, curator [[Roxana Stinchfield Ferris]] retired, leaving Thomas as curator from 1963 to 1972, becoming director of the herbarium from 1972 until 1995. He assumed the duties of associate professor from 1969 to 1977, In 1977 he was made professor, staying there until his retirement as professor emeritus of biological sciences in 1995.Timby 1998, p. 14. |
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==Herbaria== |
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After [[Frederick E. Terman]] became university provost in 1954, there was a strong push towards biomedicine and biochemistry, particularly in terms of the potential for new federal funding available to the university for cellular and molecular biology research. Terman’s administrative focus led to the elimination of the Division of Systematic Biology in June 1965. This loss of funding led to the eventual transfer of the 850,000-specimen Dudley Herbarium from Stanford to the California Academy of Sciences Herbarium. In 1969, Thomas began working as a part-time joint curator at the Academy.Daniel 2008, p. 258. The transfer of the collections from Stanford to the Academy was eventually completed in 1976. Thomas helped establish the [[Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve]] in 1973, and along with John Rawlings and Toni Corelli, he was one of the primary contributors to the Jasper Ridge specimen collection at Oakmead Herbarium.Jewett 2005; Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH). |
After [[Frederick E. Terman]] became university provost in 1954, there was a strong push towards biomedicine and biochemistry, particularly in terms of the potential for new federal funding available to the university for cellular and molecular biology research. Terman’s administrative focus led to the elimination of the Division of Systematic Biology in June 1965. This loss of funding led to the eventual transfer of the 850,000-specimen Dudley Herbarium from Stanford to the California Academy of Sciences Herbarium. In 1969, Thomas began working as a part-time joint curator at the Academy.Daniel 2008, p. 258. The transfer of the collections from Stanford to the Academy was eventually completed in 1976. Thomas helped establish the [[Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve]] in 1973, and along with John Rawlings and Toni Corelli, he was one of the primary contributors to the Jasper Ridge specimen collection at Oakmead Herbarium.Jewett 2005; Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH). |
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American botanist (1910–1993)
John Hunter Thomas (March 26, 1928 – July 20, 1999) was an American botanist, professor of biological sciences at Stanford…
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