Victor C. Twitty
Victor Chandler Twitty (November 5, 1901 — March 22, 1967) was an American biologist and embryologist. [1] [2] [3] Twitty was chair of the biological sciences department, Stanford University,[1] president of the American Society of Zoologists,[1] a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[1][2][3][4] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[2] Herzstein Professor of Biology,[1] a Guggenheim fellow,[1]
The New York Times called Twitty "a distinguished embryologist".[1] The National Academy of Sciences called him "a master experimentalist in....the laboratory bench and the mountain terrain and streams of the American West".[3]
Life and career
- 1901 born in Martin County, Indiana
- 1925: graduated from Butler College[1]
- 1929: doctorate from Yale University[1]
- 1932: assistant professor of biology, Stanford University[2]
- 1936: professor of biology, Stanford University[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i New York Times:Stanford Biologist Dies in Laboratory Of Self-Poisoning;Dr. Victor C. Twitty, 65 years old, head of the biological sciences department, died today in his campus laboratory "of self-inflicted cyanide poisoning"
- ^ a b c d e Stanford University:Memorial Resolution:Victor Chandler Twitty
- ^ a b c Victor Chandler Twitty;By Norman K. Wessells
- ^ New York Times:BRONK NAMED HEAD OF SCIENCE ACADEMY; HEADS SCIENTISTS SCIENCE ACADEMY ELECTS DR. BRONK The 30 Americans Elected;By WILLIAM L. LAURENCE;(Washington Bureau), April 26, 1950
Categories:
- 1901 births
- 1967 deaths
- American biologists
- Yale University alumni
- Butler University alumni
- Stanford University Department of Biology faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- People from Martin County, Indiana
- Drug-related suicides in California
- Suicides by poison
- Scientists who committed suicide
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Embryologists