Background
Starkey, Robert Lyman was born on September 27, 1899 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles W. and Etta C. (Howes).
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Robert Lyman Starkey
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Agriculture College, 1921. Master of Science, Rutgers University, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 1924.
Career
Instructor bacteriology University Minnesota, 1924-1926. Associate professor soil microbiology Rutgers University, 1926-1944, professor microbiology, 1944-1965, emeritus professor, from 1966, head department agricultural microbiology, 1954-1965. Associate soil microbiologist New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station, 1926-1944, research specialist, 1944-1965.
Participant 1st International Congress Soil Science, Washington, 1927, 2d Congress, Russia, 1930. Secretary section agricultural and industrial microbiology 3d International Microbiology Congress, New York City, 1939. Vice president section agricultural microbiology 6th Congress, Rome, Italy, 1953.
Focal topic chairman 8th congress, Montreal, Canada, 1962. Vice president section microbiology, chairman symposium 9th International Botanical Congress, Montreal, 1959. Representative Society of America Bacteriologists on National Research Council, 1956-1959.
Achievements
Membership
Served with SATC, World War I. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Agronomy (executive committee, member board governors 1957-1958), Theobald Smith Society (1st president 1941-1942), American Society Microbiology (president 1962-1963, honorary member), Canada Society for Microbiology (honorary), Associacion Mexican de Microbiologia (honorary), Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma Kappa.
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Son of; married Florence Tenney, 1928.
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Nationality
American -
Religion
Unitarian Universalist -
Political Party
Republican
Awards
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Rockefeller fellow, 1937-1938. Recipient Distinguished Research award advisory board Research Council Rutgers University, 1958, certificate Office Naval Research, 1967, award Alumni Association University Massachusetts, 1969. Charles Thom award Society for Industrial Microbiology, 1976. Robert L. Starkey professorship named in honor at Waksman Institute Microbiology, 1983, Starkey Apartments at Rutgers University, 1981.Rockefeller fellow, 1937-1938. Recipient Distinguished Research award advisory board Research Council Rutgers University, 1958, certificate Office Naval Research, 1967, award Alumni Association University Massachusetts, 1969. Charles Thom award Society for Industrial Microbiology, 1976.
Robert L. Starkey professorship named in honor at Waksman Institute Microbiology, 1983, Starkey Apartments at Rutgers University, 1981.