Verne Edwin Grant

Background

Grant, Verne Edwin was born on October 17, 1917 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Edwin and Bessie (Swallow) Grant.

Education

AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1949.

Career

Teaching assistant botany, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1949; National Research Council fellow, Carnegie Institute, Stanford, California, 1949-1950; geneticist, Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, California, 1950-1967; assistant professor, Claremont Graduate School, 1951-1953; associate professor, Claremont Graduate School, 1953-1957; professor, Claremont Graduate School, 1957-1967; professor biology, Institute Life Science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical U., College Station, 1967-1968; professor, director Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, U. Arizona, Superior, 1968-1970; professor botany, University Texas, Austin, 1970-1987; professor emeritus, University Texas, Austin, since 1987.

Achievements

• Verne Edwin Grant has been listed as a noteworthy biology professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Origin of Adaptations

    (In discussing basic aspects of the evolutionary theory, t...)

  • Organismic Evolution

    (Owner name on end page. Some shelf and edge wear. Indenta...)

  • Flower Pollination in the Phlox Family

    (Sm Quarto, 1965, PP.180, An Award Winning Book)

  • Hummingbirds and Their Flowers

    (Sm Quarto, 1968, PP.115,)

  • Genetics of Flowering Plants

    (Botany)

  • Flower Pollination in the Phlox Family
  • The Origin of Adaptations
  • Natural History of the Phlox Family ; Volume 1: Systematic Botany
  • Flower pollination in the phlox family
  • Hummingbirds and Their Flowers by Karen A. Grant (1968-07-01)
  • Natural History of the Phlox Family: Systematic Botany (International Scholars Forum) (Volume 1) by Verne Grant (1959-01-01)
  • Plant Speciation
  • Natural History of the Phlox Family: Systematic Botany (International Scholars Forum) (Volume 1)
  • Genetics of Flowering Plants 1st edition by Grant, Verne (1978) Paperback
  • Flower Pollination in the Phlox Family by Grant, Professor Verne (1965) Hardcover
  • The Architecture of the Germplasm
  • Plant Speciation by Verne Grant (1974) Paperback

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, Society for Study of Evolution (president 1968), Botanical Society of America (certified of merit 1971), International Society Plant Taxonomists, American Society Plant Taxonomists, Academy Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas.

Connections

Married Alva Day, June 12, 1946 (divorced August 1959). Children: Joyce Grant Mixon, Brian, Brenda Grant Aley. Married Karen Alt, November 3, 1960.

Father:

Edwin Grant

Mother:

Bessie (Swallow) Grant

Spouse:

Alva Day

Spouse:

Karen Alt

child:

Brenda Grant Aley Grant

child:

Joyce Grant Mixon Grant

child:

Brian Grant