Lawrence Rogers Blinks

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Lawrence Rogers Blinks (22 April 1900- 4 March 1989)[1] was an American biologist with research interests in photosynthesis and eletrophysiology.

Life and education[]

Lawrence Rogers Blinks was born in Michigan City, Indiana on 22 April 1900 to parents Walter Moulton Blinks and Ella Little (Rogers) Blinks.[1] He attended Kalamazoo College and Stanford University, before attending Harvard University where he was awarded a BS in 1923 and MA in 1925. He also completed his PhD at Harvard in 1926 under the direction of Winthrop Osterhout.[1] Blinks married botanist Anne Catherine Hof in 1928 and they had one son.[1][2] At age 88, Lawrence Blinks died on March 22, 1989 in Pacific Grove, California.[1]

Career[]

After graduation, Blinks continued to work with Osterhout at the Bermuda Biological Station and Rockefeller Institute.[1] In 1933, he joined the faculty of Stanford University and worked on the main campus before serving the director of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove from 1943-1965.[1] After retiring from Stanford, he worked as a visiting professor at UC Santa Cruz from 1966-1973 and helped to develop the new UC campus's Department of Biological Sciences.[3]

Awards[]

The standard author abbreviation L.R.Blinks is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Thorhaug, Anitra; Berlyn, Graeme (2009-06-17). "A tribute to Lawrence Rogers Blinks (1900–1989): light and algae". Photosynthesis Research. 100 (3): 129–141. doi:10.1007/s11120-009-9435-1. ISSN 0166-8595. PMID 19533413.
  2. ^ "Blinks, Lawrence Rogers". American National Biography Online. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  3. ^ Abbott, Isabella A; Smith, Celia M (2010). "Lawrence Rogers Blinks 1900-1989: A biographical memoir" (PDF). National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs.
  4. ^ IPNI.  L.R.Blinks.
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