About Lake Shore Gill
Lived 1900 – 1969. Lake Shore Gill was a botanist.
Lake Shore Gill (1900 – July 5, 1969) was a botanist and forest pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was a definitive authority on the genus Arceuthobium.
Career Gill received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1922, and his master's in 1931. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1934. In the 1930s, he began studying Arceuthobium species in the American Southwest, specifically the effect of forest infestations. In 1935, Gill published the monograph, "Arceuthobium in the United States", which was a seminal treatment of dwarf mistletoe taxonomy and research.
Gill pursued a career with the USDA starting in 1923. He retired from the USDA in 1960.
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Who was Lake Shore Gill?
American botanist and pathologist
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Lake Shore Gill was born in 1900.
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Lake Shore Gill died on 5 July 1969.
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Lake Shore Gill was a botanist.
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Lake Shore Gill's recorded nationality: America.
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