Burton Edward Livingston (February 9, 1875 – February 8, 1948) was an
American
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plant physiologist, born at
Grand Rapids
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,
Michigan
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. He was educated at the
University of Michigan
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(B.S., 1898) and the
University of Chicago
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(Ph.D., 1902), where he worked as an assistant from 1899 to 1905. He published ''Róle of Diffusion and Osmotic Pressure in Plants'' (1903). In 1913, Livingston became the professor of plant physiology at
Johns Hopkins University
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. He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1914. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as the
Society for Science and the Public
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, from 1930 to 1937. He was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1933.
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1875 births
1948 deaths
American non-fiction writers
Plant physiologists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan
University of Michigan alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Society for Science & the Public
American botanists
Members of the American Philosophical Society
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