Background
Meyer, Bernard SAndler was born on July 20, 1901 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Frederick and Florence Katherine (Hinkle) Meyer.
Meyer, Bernard SAndler was born on July 20, 1901 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Frederick and Florence Katherine (Hinkle) Meyer.
Bachelor, Ohio State University, 1921. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1926.
Student, in England, Germany, 1930.
Graduate assistant, Ohio State University, 1921-1923;
instructor, Ohio State University, 1923-1927;
associate forest ecologist, United States Forest Svc., 1927-1928;
assistant professor botany, Ohio State University, 1928-1934;
associate professor, Ohio State University, 1934-1940;
professor, Ohio State University, from 1940;
department chairman botany and plant pathology, Ohio State University, from 1946;
and Ohio Agriculture Experimental Station, Ohio State University, 1948-1965. Investigator, Desert Laboratory Carnegie Institute, summer 1929. Professor plant physiology, Stone Biological Laboratory summers 1937, 38, 40, 41.
Associate physiologist, United States Department of Agriculture, summer 1943, physiologist, summers 1944-1945. Business manager Ohio Journal Science, 1930-1941. Collaborator, rubber investigations, United States Department of Agriculture, 1942-1944.
Consultant National Science Foundation, from 1958.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ohio Academy of Sciences (vice president 1933). Member American Institute Biological Sciences (governing board 1958-1964, vice president 1961), Botanical Society of America (chairman physiological section 1941, vice president 1952), American Phytopath. Society, Ecological Society of America, American Society Plant Physiols.
(vice president 1940, president 1943), Faculty Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha.
Married Blanche Montgomery, 1931 (divorced). Married second, Grace Townsend, 1948.