Aubrey Willard Naylor

Background

Naylor, Aubrey Willard was born on February 5, 1915 in Union City, Tennessee, United States. Son of Harry Joseph and Clara Mae (Isbell) Naylor.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1937; Master of Science, University of Chicago, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1940.

Career

Member staff, bureau plant industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Chicago, 1938-1940; instructor botany, University of Chicago, 1940-1944; instructor botany, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1944-1945; assistant professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1946-1947; assistant professor, Yale University, 1947-1952; associate professor, Duke U., 1952-1959; professor, Duke U., 1959-1972; James B. Duke professor, Duke U., 1972-1985; James B. Duke professor emeritus, Duke U., since 1985. Program director for metabolic biology National Science Foundation, Washington, 1961-1962, consultant, 1960-1963. Chairman of Commission examiners for Graduate (School) Record Examination on Biology, Education Testing Svc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1966-1972.

Consultant Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1957-1958, Research Triangle Institute, North Carolina, since 1968, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1969-1975, Schaper and Brümmer Pharmaceutical Company, Salzgitter, Federal Republic of Germany, 1986-1992, Akzo Salt Company, 1991-1996. Member summer faculties U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1960-1961, Greensboro, 1964-1965. Member summer faculties Bennett College, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Visiting professor U. Bristol, England, 1958-1959, University Texas, Austin, 1977.

Achievements

• Aubrey Willard Naylor has been listed as a noteworthy botany educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (life member). Member American Society Plant Physiologists (life, chairman of the board of trustees 1962-1974, president 1961, Executive Committee 1959-1960, 62-74, 81-82, Distinguished Svc. award Southern section 1981, Charles Reid Barnes life membership 1981, archivist since 1987), American Institute Biological Sciences, American Society Cell Biologists, Botanical Society American (life, certified of merit 1988), Scandinavian Society.Plant Physiologists, Japanese Society Plant Physiologists, Australian Society Plant Physiologists, Cosmos Club (Washington), Sigma Xi (life, president chapter 1968-1969).

Connections

Married Frances Valentine Lloyd, December 26, 1940 (deceased May 1998). Children: Virginia Dawson Naylor Kirby, Edith-Margaret Naylor DeWitt.

Father:

Harry Joseph Naylor

Mother:

Clara Mae (Isbell) Naylor

Spouse:

Frances Valentine Lloyd

child:

Edith-Margaret Naylor DeWitt Naylor

child:

Virginia Dawson Naylor Kirby Naylor