Background
Stadler, Lewis John was born on July 6, 1896 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry L. and Josephine (Ehrman) Stadler.
Stadler, Lewis John was born on July 6, 1896 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry L. and Josephine (Ehrman) Stadler.
Bachelor of Agricultural Science, University of Florida, 1917. Master of Arts, University of Missouri, 1918, Doctor of Philosophy, 1922. Graduate work Cornell Univercity, 1919, 26, Harvard, 1925-1926.
His research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radiation on economically important plants like maize and barley. Stadler"s early education efforts were unremarkable, but two summers worked on Midwestern farms sparked an interest in agriculture. Afterwards, he returned to the University of Missouri and earned the Master of Arts (1918).
Post-Master of Arts, he enrolled in the Field Artillery of the United States Army, although his commission as Second Lieutenant was not used in overseas duty due to the end of World War I. Stadler spent 1919 in graduate studies at Cornell University under Harry Houser Love and Rollins A. Emerson.
He returned again to the University of Missouri and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1922. Following graduation, he joined the University of Missouri Department of Field Crops faculty.
Stadler remained at Missouri until 1954 and acted as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology (1940), and Yale University (1950). He simultaneously held an appointment with the United States. Department of Agriculture beginning in 1930.
Stadler completed presidential terms for several academic organizations, including Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists, and Sigma Xi.
While Stadler spent almost his entire academic life at the University of Missouri he was also involved in external activities. In 1948 Stadler was appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, which met in Stockholm. However, the United States. Department of Agriculture rejected his passport application and conducted a loyalty investigation.
Stadler initially thought it was a State Department action.
Stadler married Cornelia Field Tuckerman in 1919. They had six children: Maury, Henry, David, John, Eliot, and Joan.
Although Stadler"s initial research was on field plot technique and agronomy, his main research interest became genetics, concentrated upon the study of mutation in corn. He did much work on the effects of X-ray treatments, and did comparative studies of mutation caused by X-rays and by ultraviolet rays.
His work earned him an international reputation.
He died of leukemia in 1954. In his honor, the University of Missouri holds the Stadler Genetics Symposium every two years.
During the 1930s Stadler participated in efforts to bring European scientists to the United States. to escape Nazism.
Member science advising committee Selective Service System. Served as Second lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1918. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Botanical Society America, American Society Agronomy, Genetics Society America (president 1938), American Society Naturalists (president 1953), American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Sigma Xi (president).
Member editorial board Experimental Biology Monographs, Advances in Genetics, American Naturalist, University of Missouri Studies and Genetics.
Married Cornelia Field Tuckerman, December 18, 1919. Children: Maury Tuckerman, Henry Lewis, David Ross, John Brandeis, Eliot Tuckerman, Joan.