Lawrence Rogers Blinks (22 April 1900- 4 March 1989) was an American biologist with research interests in photosynthesis and electrophysiology. He served as the editor of the ''Annual Review of Plant Physiology'' (now the ''

Annual Review of Plant Biology ''Annual Review of Plant Biology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews. It was first published in 1950 as the ''Annual Review of Plant Physiology''. Sabeeha Merchant has been the editor since 2005, making her the lo ...

'') for 1956.

Life and education

Lawrence Rogers Blinks was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on 22 April 1900 to parents Walter Moulton Blinks and Ella Little (Rogers) Blinks. He attended

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and Stanford University, before attending

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where he was awarded a BS in 1923 and MA in 1925. He also completed his PhD at Harvard in 1926 under the direction of Winthrop Osterhout. Blinks married botanist Anne Catherine Hof in 1928 and they had one son. At age 88, Lawrence Blinks died on March 22, 1989, in Pacific Grove, California.

Career

After graduation, Blinks continued to work with Osterhout at the Bermuda Biological Station and Rockefeller Institute. In 1933, he joined the faculty of Stanford University and worked on the main campus before serving the director of Stanford's

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in Pacific Grove from 1943 to 1965. After retiring from Stanford, he worked as a visiting professor at

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from 1966 to 1973 and helped to develop the new UC campus's Department of Biological Sciences.

Awards

* Guggenheim Fellowship (1939, 1948) * Fellow of the

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(1949) * American Society of Plant Biology Stephen Hales Award (1952) * Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1955) * Fulbright Scholarship (1957)

References

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