Background
Powers, Edwin Booth was born on August 6, 1880 in Ellis Company, Texas, United States. Son of William Wilson and Evaline Crocia (Woods) Powers.
Powers, Edwin Booth was born on August 6, 1880 in Ellis Company, Texas, United States. Son of William Wilson and Evaline Crocia (Woods) Powers.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity University, Waxahachie, Texas, 1906. Master of Sciences, University of Chicago, 1913. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Illinois, 1918.
Student, Cambridge University, England, 1922.
And professor in biology, Trinity University, 1908-1915. Research assistant Puget Sound Biological Station, University of Washington, summer, 1914, assistant in zoology, summer, 1918, professor zoology, summers, 1919, 21, 22, 24, 27. Assistant professor zoology, Colorado College, 1918-1919.
Traveled and studied Imperial Institute (London), Danish Biological Station, Naples Biological Station, 1919-1920.
Instructor in zoology, University of Nebraska, 1920-1922. Associate professor anatomy and embryology, University of Tennessee Medical College, Memphis, Tennessee, 1922-1923.
Professor zoology and acting head of department University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1923-1924, head of department zoology, 1924-1941, head of department of zoology and entomology since 1941. At Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, summer 1920.
Professor limnology, Mount Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, summer 1934.
Professor physiology Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, Put-in-Bay, Ohio State University, summers 1935 and 1936. Stream pollution advisory to North Carolina Pulp Company, 1940-1941. At Solomon Island, Maryland.
State Laboratory, 1945-1946.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Zoological Society America, Ecological Society America (president 1933-1934), Limnol. Society America, American Fish Society, Entomological Society America, Tennessee Academy Science, Sigma Xi.
Married Pauline Watkins, June 9, 1918. Children: Edwine Watkins, Wilson Watkins, Doctor of Medicine Instructor.