Background
Moore, George Thomas was born on February 23, 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of George T. and Margaret (Marshall) Moore.
Moore, George Thomas was born on February 23, 1871 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of George T. and Margaret (Marshall) Moore.
Bachelor of Science, Wabash College, 1894. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1895, Master of Arts, 1896, Doctor of Philosophy, 1900.
Assistant in cryptogamic botany, Harvard. Teacher Radcliffe College. In charge botany, Dartmouth College, 1899-1901.
Became physiologist and algologist, Bureau Plant Industry, Department Agriculture, 1901.
In charge Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department Agriculture, 1903-1905. In charge of botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, 1909-1919.
Professor applied botany and plant physiology, Shaw School of Botany (Washington University) and physiologist to Missouri Botanical Garden, September 1909-May 1912. Director Missouri Botanical Garden since May 1, 1912.
President board of trustees Tower Grove Park.
President board of trustees Saint Louis Country Day School. Discoverer of a method for preventing pollution of water supplies by algæ and certain pathogenic bacteria. Perfected method for inoculating the soil with bacteria which enable certain crops to use atmospheric nitrogen.
Reviser for “algæ,” Century Dictionary.
Contributor to scientific journals and Department Agriculture bulletins upon Pollution of Water Supplies by Algæ, with recommendations for preventing these growths, and upon Fixation of Nitrogen by Bacteria, et cetera
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Philosophical Society, Washington Academy Sciences, Saint Louis Academy Science, Botanical Society America, Botanical Society Washington, Society American Bacteriologists, English-Speaking Union (vice president), Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa. Overseer, Harvard University.
Clubs: University, Noonday, Round Table, Town and Gown, Saint Louis Country.
Married Emma L. Hall, December 30, 1896 (died January 1934). Married second, Katherine H. Leigh, February 20, 1937 (died October 1945). Children: Harriet Hall, Thomas Gaunt.