Background
Krauss, Robert Wallfar was born on December 27, 1921 in Cleveland. Son of Wallfar Gradifer and Emma Eleanor (Mueller) Krauss.
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Robert Wallfar Krauss
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Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1947; Master of Science, U. Hawaii, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Maryland., 1951.
Career
Research fellow, Carnegie Institution, 1951-1954; research associate, U. Maryland., College Park, 1951-1954; member of faculty, U. Maryland., College Park, 1955-1972; professor plant physiology, U. Maryland., College Park, 1959-1972; head Department, University Maryland., College Park, 1964-1973; dean College Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1973-1979; executive director, Federation American Socs. Experimental Biology, Bethesda, Maryland., 1979-1990; senior visiting science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, since 1990; staff member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1955, 56, 57; consultant, United States Air Force School Aviation Medicine, since 1961; special advisor on, United States/Soviet relations to administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration, since 1964; senior research affiliate, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, since 1968.
Achievements
Membership
Served to Second lieutenant Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (council member). Member American Society Plant Physiologists (trustee 1964-1970), American Institute Biological Sciences (special award 1974, secretary-treasurer 1963-1968, president 1973), Botanical Society American (Darbaker award 1956), Botanical Society Washington (president 1964), Phycological Society American (president since 1963), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Wilberta TuckerBunker, August 29, 1947 (divorced 1969). Children: Robert Geoffrey, Douglas Andrew. Married Marilyn J. Marsh, December 19, 1986.
