Background
Sparrow, Frederick Kroeber was born on May 11, 1903 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Frederick Kroeber and Minnie (Tomlinson) Sparrow.
Sparrow, Frederick Kroeber was born on May 11, 1903 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Frederick Kroeber and Minnie (Tomlinson) Sparrow.
Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1925. A.M., Harvard, 1926, Doctor of Philosophy., 1929.
Austin teaching fellow, Harvard, 1926-1929. Assistant in botany Radcliffe College, 1927. Assistant in plant ecology Biological Station, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1926-1931.
Instructor, assistant professor, biology Dartmouth College, 1929-1936. National Research Council fellow in biological science Cornell Univercity, 1931-1932, Cambridge U. (England) and University Copenhagen (Denmark), 1932-1933. Research fellowship Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institution, 1934-1936.
Research Atkins Gardens and Research Laboratory, Harvard University, Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1949, Botany School, Cambridge U., 1956, U. Florida, 1975. Assistant professor botany University of Michigan, 1936-1944, associate professor, 1944-1949, professor botany, 1949-1977, acting director Biological Station, Douglas Lake, 1967, director, 1968-1972. Member commission on biology and agriculture National Research Council, 1953-1958.
Research associate Michigan State College Experimental Station, summers 1943-1944. Visiting professor U. Hawaii, 1963, University of California, Berkeley, 1966, U. Washington Friday Harbor Laboratory, 1968, 72, U. South Florida, 1973-1974. Honorary vice president Xth International Botanical Congress, Edinburgh, 1964.
Chairman Symposium I International Mycological Congress, Exeter, England, 1971, president 2d Congress, Tampa, Florida, 1977. Chairman 2d International Symposium on Marine Fungi, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1972. Collaborator, div. cotton and other fibre crops and plant diseases, bureau plant industry, soils and agricultural engineering, agriculture research administrator United States Department of Agriculture.
Author: Aquatic Phycomycetes, 1943, 2d edition., 1961. (with T.W. Johnson) Fungi of Oceans and Estuaries, 1961. Also of invitation papers: Sixth International Botanical Congress (Amsterdam), 1935, British Association, Advancement Sciences (Norwich), 1935, Linnean Society of London, 1936.
Also more than 100 papers dealing with marine and freshwater fungi. Co-editor: The Fungi, Vol.
Member commission on biology and agriculture National Research Council, 1953-1958. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member N.E. Botanical.
Club, Botanical Society American, Michigan Academy Sciences, Arts and Letters (secretary 1943-1947, editor 1947-1952, president 1954-1955), Mycological Society American (secretary-treasurer 1945-1948, vice president 1948, president 1949. Member Third Microbiol. Congress, New York, 1939.
Married Anna Gabler, September 2, 1925. Children: Frederick Tomlinson, George Burbank.