Background
Stevens, Neil Everett was born on April 6, 1887 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Hattie (Mantle) Stevens.
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Stevens, Neil Everett was born on April 6, 1887 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Thomas Jefferson and Hattie (Mantle) Stevens.
Bachelor of Arts, Bates College, 1908. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1911.
He served as president of the Botanical Society of Washington (1931), American Phytopathological Society (1934), and Botanical Society of America (1948). His research chiefly concerned fungal diseases of crops such as chestnuts, strawberries, cranberries, currant, and corn. Stevens was born in Portland, Maine, graduated from Bates College in 1908, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy. from Yale University in 1911.
He was instructor at Kansas State College from 1911 to 1912, then worked at the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States. Department of Agriculture from 1912 to 1936.
He worked as adjunct professor at George Washington University from 1931 to 1936, then professor of botany and plant pathology at the University of Illinois from 1936 to 1949. The standard author transcript North.E.Stevens is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
Member American Phytopathol. Society (vice president 1933. Club: University (Urbana).
Advisory editor of The Botanical Review since 1935.
Married Maude Bradford, August 31, 1914. Children: Russell Bradford, Carl Mantle II, Mary Christine.