Charles Stacy Stacy French

Background

French, Charles Stacy was born on December 13, 1907 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles Ephraim and Helena (Stacy) French.

Education

Student, Loomis Institute, Windsor, Connecticut, 1921-1925; Bachelor of Science, Harvard, 1930; AM, Harvard, 1932; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1934; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Göteborg, Sweden, 1974.

Career

Assistant in general physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1930-1933; Austin teaching fellow in biochemistry, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1936-1938; research fellow, California Institute Technology, 1934-1935; guest worker with Otto Warburg, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, Dahlem, Federal Republic of Germany, 1935-1936; instructor chemistry with James Franck, University of Chicago, 1938-1941; assistant professor department botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1941-1945; associate professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1945-1947; director department plant biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford (California) U., 1947-1973; director emeritus, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford (California) U., since 1973; professor (by courtesy), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford (California) U.

Achievements

• Charles Stacy French has been listed as a noteworthy biology educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee The Trust for Hidden Villa Inc., 1979-1989. Member American Society Plant Physiologists (chairman Western Section 1954, Charles Ried Barnes life member), Botanical Society of America (award of merit 1973), National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Biological Chemists, Society General Physiologists (vice president 1954, president 1955-1956), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biophysics Society, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Friends of Hidden Villa (president 1977-1979) Clubs: American Alpine, Harvard of Peninsula (president 1973-1975), Explorers.

Interests

• Mountaineering, conservation of natural areas, development of instruments for plane table plotting for maps.

Connections

Married Margaret Wendell Coolidge, December 10, 1938 (deceased January 1992). Children: Helena Stacy Halperin, Charles Ephraim. Married Lee (Noelithia) Penland, May 2, 1993.

Father:

Charles Ephraim French

Mother:

Helena (Stacy) French

Spouse:

Lee

Spouse:

Margaret Wendell Coolidge

child:

Charles Ephraim French

child:

Helena Stacy Halperin French