Background
Johnson, Duncan Starr was born on July 21, 1867 in Cromwell, Connecticut, United States. Son of Edward Tracy and Lucy Emma (Starr) Johnson.
Johnson, Duncan Starr was born on July 21, 1867 in Cromwell, Connecticut, United States. Son of Edward Tracy and Lucy Emma (Starr) Johnson.
Bachelor of Science, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1892, Doctor of Science, 1932. Student, Yale, 1887; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1897. University of Munich, 1901.
Assistant in botany, 1898-1899, associate, 1899-1901, associate professor, 1901-1906, professor, since 1906, director botanical garden, since 1913, Johns Hopkins University In charge of botany, 1896-1900, cryptogamic botany, 1902-1911, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New New York Botanical exploration and investigation, Jamaica, British West Indies California California, 6 times to 1932. Investigator, Carnegie Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, 1912, 15.
In charge of inspection for disease of grain fields of Atlantic States for Bureau of Plant Industry, May-August 1918.
Vice president Mount Desert Biological Laboratory, since 1921. Lecturer Mount Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, summer 1935.
Director 6th Botanical Expedition of Johns Hopkins University to West Indian tropics, and Guatemala, June-August 1932, and of 7th Expedition of Botanical Department, Johns Hopkins, to Jamaica and Central America, summer 1936. Manager Long Island Biological Association, 1923-1924.
Member National Research Council, 1927-1933, chairman division biology and agriculture, 1931-1932. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section G, 1912). Member Botanical Society America (secretary 1907-1909).
Married Mary East. G. Lentz, June 22, 1904. Children: George Duncan, David Starr.