Background
Kunkel, Louis Otto was born on May 7, 1884 in Mexico, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry and Katie Price (Spencer) Kunkel.
Kunkel, Louis Otto was born on May 7, 1884 in Mexico, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry and Katie Price (Spencer) Kunkel.
Bachelor of Science in Education, U. Missouri, 1909, Bachelor of Arts, 1910, Master of Arts, 1911. Student Henry Shaw School Botany, Saint Louis. 1911-1912; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1914.
Graduate study U. Freiburg, Germany, 1915-1916.
Assistant in botany U. Missouri, 1908-1911, Columbia, 1912-1913. research assistant, 1913-1914. Pathologist United States Department of Agriculture, 1914-1920. Associate pathologist experiment station Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, 1920-1923.
Pathologist Boyce Thompson Institute Plant Research, Yonkers, New York, 1923-1932.
Member Rockefeller Institute Medical Research, 1931-1949, member emeritus, since 1949.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy Science, American Philosophical Society, Botanical Society Am, American Phytopathological Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Delta Kappa. Joint author: Filter Viruses, 1928.
Married Johanna Caroline Wortmann, September 4, 1915. Children: Henry George, Otto Wortmann, Walter Relph, Paul Spercer.