Ivey Foreman Lewis
Ivey Foreman Lewis (August 31, 1882 – March 16, 1964) was an American botanist and geneticist who served for two decades as dean of the University of Virginia and was a founder of the Virginia Academy of Science. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as president of the American Society of Naturalists (1939), American Biological Society (1942), and the Botanical Society of America (1949).[1] He was also a strong advocate of eugenics over the course of his career.[2][3] Lewis was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and earned a B.S. (1902) and M.S. (1903) at the University of North Carolina. He earned a PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 1908, and was Professor of Biology at Randolph–Macon College from 1905 to 1912; Assistant Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin from 1912 to 1914; Professor of Botany at the University of Missouri from 1914 to 1915; and in 1915 became Professor of Biology and Agriculture at the University of Virginia. He was appointed Dean of University in 1934 and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1946, a position he held until his retirement in 1953.[1][4]
The standard author abbreviation I.F.Lewis is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
References
- ^ a b Runk, B. F. D.; Gooch, Robert K.; Husted, Ladley (1964). "A Resolution on the Death of Ivey Foreman Lewis: University of Virginia". Castanea. 29 (4): 188–191. JSTOR 4031997.
- ^ Dorr, Gregory Michael (2008). Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. University of Virginia Press. pp. 72–77. ISBN 978-0-8139-2755-8.
- ^ Dorr, Gregory Michael (2000). "Assuring America's place in the sun: Ivey Foreman Lewis and the teaching of eugenics at the University of Virginia, 1915-1953". The Journal of Southern History. 66 (2): 257–296. JSTOR 2587659. PMID 17896450.
- ^ "Dr. Ivey Foreman Lewis, 81". The New York Times. 17 March 1964.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. I.F.Lewis.
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