Elva Lawton
American botanist and bryologist
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- PhD Botany University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elva Lawton was an American botanist and bryologist known for her research on ferns early in her career and her late-career comprehensive study of the mosses of the Western United States. Early life and education Elva Lawton was born in West Middletown, Pennsylvania on April 3, 1896. Prior to matriculating at university, she was an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania from 1915 to 1919. She attended the University of Pittsburgh for her bachelor's degree, which she earned in 1923, and her master's degree, which she earned in 1925. From 1923 to 1925 she was also a high school biology and Latin teacher in Crafton, Pennsylvania. She then moved to the University of Michigan for her doctoral studies and received her Ph.D. in 1932 with a dissertation on induced polyploidy and regeneration in ferns. During her doctoral studies, Lawton earned a fellowship and was a laboratory assistant in the Michigan department of botany; she was also a biology instructor at Hunter College. She was also a researcher at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1928 to 1932.
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