Background
Juday, Chancey was born on May 5, 1871 in near Millersburg, Indiana, United States. Son of Baltzer and Elizabeth (Heltzel) Juday.
Juday, Chancey was born on May 5, 1871 in near Millersburg, Indiana, United States. Son of Baltzer and Elizabeth (Heltzel) Juday.
Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, 1896, Department of Administration and Management., 1897, Doctor of Laws from the same university in 1933.
Birge and Juday founded an influential school of limnology on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin. Edward Birge hired Chancey Juday through this program to help him take samples of lakes in Wisconsin. Their main sampling took place on Lake Mendota.
The two, Juday and Birge, studied dissolved oxygen and temperature, leading future limnologists to a better understanding of stratification.
Juday, born 5 May 1871 at Millersburg, Indiana, completed his Bachelor of Arts (1896) and Master of Arts (1897) degrees at Indiana University. Many years later he was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws
Juday was one of the founders of the Limnological Society of America, serving as its president for two years.
He was awarded the Leidy Award (1943) by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Juday died 29 March 1944, but in 1950 shared posthumously the Einar Naumann Medal of the International Association of Limnology with Birge.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Zoölogists, American Society Naturalists, American Micros. Society (president 1923), Ecological Society America (president 1927), International Limnol.
Society, Wisconsin Academy Sciences (sec-treasurer, 1922-1930) (president 1937-1939), American Limnol.
Society (president 1935-1936), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Magdalen Evans, September 6, 1910. Children: Chancey Evans, Mary, Richard Evans.