Herbert Hice Whetzel

Herbert Hice Whetzel (September 5, 1877 – November 30, 1944) was an American mycologist and plant pathologist. He was born near Avilla, Indiana, where he spent his boyhood. After graduating from Wabash College in 1902, he attended graduate school at Cornell University, where he studied under George F. Atkinson. He was then hired by Liberty Hyde Bailey to do extension work for Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[1] In 1906, Whetzel was appointed assistant professor of botany, and in 1907, he became the head professor of the newly created Department of Plant Pathology.[1] His students included M.F. Barrus and Charles Chupp, who both went on to teach at Cornell and who shared Whetzel's conviction of the importance of extension work.[1] Whetzel died in Ithaca, New York at the age of 67.[2] He had resided in the Forest Home region of Ithaca for over 30 years, along with his wife, Bertha.[3]

Whetzel studied sclerotium-producing fungi, and published a monograph of genera in the family Sclerotiniaceae. He was also a charter member of the American Phytopathological Society, authored more than 300 publications, and was instrumental in developing the Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP).[4]

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  1. 1 2 3 Newhall, Allan G. (1980). "Herbert Hice Whetzel: Pioneer American Plant Pathologist". Annual Review of Phytopathology. 18: 27–36.
  2. ↑ Fitzpatrick HM. (1945). "Herbert Hice Whetzel". Mycologia. 37 (4): 393–413. JSTOR 3754627.
  3. ↑ "Ithaca Directories (1864-1986) - TCPL - Tompkins County Public Library". tcpl.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  4. ↑ "Herbert Hice Whetzel". APSnet.org. Archived from the original on 20 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  5. ↑ IPNI.  Whetzel.


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