__NOTOC__ Henry J. Oosting (March 12, 1903 – October 30, 1968) was an American

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and professor. He was born in

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. Oosting attended

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, where he received the M.S. degree in 1927, then studied with W.S. Cooper at the

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, receiving his Ph.D. in botany in 1931, among other notable Cooper students including

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, Rexford F. Daubenmire, Frank Edwin Egler, and Jean Langenheim.Sprugel, D.G., 1980. ''A pedagogical genealogy of plant ecologists.'' Updated 2010 at ESA Histor

In 1932, Oosting began his career at

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in the Department of Botany.Biographical Sketch by C.H. Smith.
/ref> Oosting continued teaching and research at Duke until his retirement, after which research was his focus until his death in 1968. Among his notable students are W.D. Billings, F. Herbert Bormann, and Wilfred B. Schofield. His influence on his field and the respect in which he was held by colleagues are apparent in several memorials.

established "Henry J. Oosting Fellows," an honor given to Ph.D. candidates, as well as an "Oosting Memorial Lecture." Dr. Chris Field, Director of the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology and Professor of Biology and Earth System Science, delivered the 40th Henry J. Oosting Memorial Lecture in April 2011. The Henry J. Oosting Natural Area was established in Orange County, North Carolina, in his honor, and is considered to have regional significance. A new species of the vascular plant genus Trillium was named Trillium oostingii in honor of Dr. Oosting by L. L. Gaddy in 2008. Ref6

Career chronology

* 1927-1932 Botany instructor,

* 1932-1968 Botany professor,

* 1955 President of

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* 1967 Received Meritorious Teaching Award, Association of Southeastern Biologists

Selected bibliography

References

6. Gaddy, L. L. 2008. A new sessile-flowered Trillium from South Carolina. Phytologia 90:374-381.

External links

Resolution of Respect for Henry J. Oosting
by W. Dwight Billings, at

, retrieved 11/2/2011.
Henry J. Oosting papers
Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University * Sprugel, Douglas G

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 61 (1980):197-200. Accessed 11/2/2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Oosting, Henry J. Duke University faculty Michigan State University alumni University of Minnesota alumni American ecologists 1903 births 1968 deaths