Background
Verduin, Jacob was born on November 19, 1913 in Orange City, Iowa, United States. Son of Peter and Jennie (Lagestee) Verduin.
Verduin, Jacob was born on November 19, 1913 in Orange City, Iowa, United States. Son of Peter and Jennie (Lagestee) Verduin.
Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1939. Master of Science, Iowa State College, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Iowa State College, 1947.
Farmer, 1933-1935; head botany department, South Dakot State University, 1946-1948; associate professor hydrobiology, F. T. Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University, 1948-1954; head biology department, Bowling Green State University, 1955-1964; professor botany, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1964-1984; professor emeritus, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, 1984-1997. Cons. National Institutes of Health, summer 1954. Consultant water pollution control section Tennessee Valley Authority, summer 1957, Commonwealth Edison, 1972-1986, Environmental Protection Agency, 1975-1979.
Served to ensign United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Fellow Ohio Academy of Sciences (executive vice president plant science section 1958), American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Institute Biological Sciences, Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, Ecological Society of America, American Fisheries Society, American Association Limnologists and Oceanographers, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Beta Beta, Gamma Sigma Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Bethy Albertha Anderson, July 3, 1942. Children: Lans, Jan, Charlotte (deceased), Leslie, Bethy.