Walles T. Edmondson

Walles Thomas Edmondson (April 24, 1916 – January 10, 2000), also known as "Tommy" amongst his peers, was a prominent professor of zoology at the University of Washington. Edmondson was also leading American limnoecologist and writer, whose research focused on the causation and effects of eutrophication by plankton and his early work on rotifer taxonomy from Hispaniola, the Himalayas and lakes across the United States.

Edmondson won the Eminent Ecologist Award in 1983 from the Ecological Society of America. Edmondson was known for his unconventional thought process and used many disciplines for his research, much of which included: systematics, fixation methods, and substrate effects. and he also studied at the University of Wisconsin and Trout Lake under Chancey Juday. On his birthday in 1973 Edmondson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. His nomination as an eminent ecologist to the Ecological Society of America was written by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in 1984.

Awards

Member, National Academy of Sciences (1973) National Academy of Sciences Award for Environmental Quality (1973) Naumann-Thienemann Medal, International Society for Theoretical and Applied Limnology (1980) Eminent Ecologist Award, Ecological Society of America (1983)