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Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser
Samuel Wood Geiser (June 11, 1890 - August 28, 1983) was an American biologist and historian of science.
Born at Independence, Iowa, the son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, he atten...view moreSamuel Wood Geiser (June 11, 1890 - August 28, 1983) was an American biologist and historian of science.
Born at Independence, Iowa, the son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, he attended Upper Iowa University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1914 and a master’s degree in 1919, and Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1922. Geiser taught for four decades: at Guilford College in North Carolina (1914-1916), Upper Iowa University (1917-1919), Washington University in St. Louis (1922-1924), and Southern Methodist University (1924-1957). He pursued interests in science, classical literature, languages, and history.
Dr. Geiser is best known for his research on isopods, an order of Crustacea. In 1945 he was named editor of Field and Laboratory (Journal of the Graduate Research Center after 1960) at Southern Methodist University, where he served until 1961. He was also a contributing editor of the Southwest Review and a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography.
He was a fellow in the American Association of the Advancement of Science, an honorary life fellow in the Texas Academy of Science, president in 1927-1928 of the North Texas Biology Society, and a member of the American Society of Zoologists, the American Microscopy Society, the History of Science Society (council member, 1946-1948), the Texas State Historical Association, the Philosophical Society of Texas, and the American Association of University Professors. Among his honors were membership in Phi Beta Kappa and an honorary doctor of science degree awarded by Upper Iowa University (1934).
Dr. Geiser married Bessie Adella Teeple on December 28, 1916, and they had two children. Mrs. Geiser died in 1973, and Geiser died in 1983, at New Hartford, New York.view less