Background
Breed, Robert Stanley was born on October 17, 1877 in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Fitch and Emma Marie (Beers) Breed.
Breed, Robert Stanley was born on October 17, 1877 in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Fitch and Emma Marie (Beers) Breed.
He received a bachelor"s degree from Amherst College in 1898, an Master of Surgery from the University of Colorado in 1899, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in 1902.
Fitch; married second, Emma Margaret Edson, July 2, 1913. Instructor biology U. Colorado, 1898-1899. Assistant in zoology Harvard, 1900-1902.
Professor biology Allegheny College, 1902-1913, secretary faculty, 1907-1910.
Bacteriologist New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell Univercity, 1913-1947, emeritus professor bacteriology, since 1947. Vice president World Dairy Congress, Washington, 1923, London, 1928.
Delegate Berne, 1914, Rome, 1934. Permanent secretary International Committee on Bact.
Nomenclature, International Association Microbiology and International Botanical Congress, since 1930.
Delegate 2d Inter-American Conference Agriculture, Mexico City, 1942.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (council 1932-1934), American Public Health Association (vice chairman laboratory section 1932-1933, chairman 1933-1934). Member Society American Bacteriologists (president 1927), American Dairy Science Association, American Biological Society, International Association Milk Sanitarians, British Society Applied Bacteriology (correspondent), Cuban Society Microbiologists, Geneva History Society (president 1935-1942), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Rotary, University (president 1928-1930).
Married Louise Miller Helm, August 23, 1899 (died December 13, 1905). Married second, Emma Margaret Edson, July 2, 1913.