Louis Pammel
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Louis Hermann Pammel (1862 – 1931) was a professor of the Department of Botany from 1889 to 1929 after Byron Halsted resigned.
Pammel was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and died on a transcontinental train that passed through Nevada.
As a teacher, Pammel encouraged his student George Washington Carver to stay for graduate school after completing his BS in 1894. Carver became an assistant botanist at the Iowa State College Agriculture Experiment Station for two years under Pammel who was the head botanist at the Experiment Station from 1889 to 1922.
Pammel is buried in the ISU cemetery.
[edit] Education
- BAg (1885), University of Wisconsin
- MS (1889) in agriculture, University of Wisconsin
- PhD (1898), Washington University
[edit] Memberships
- Botanical Society of America
- Ecological Society of America
- American Society of Bacteriology
- St. Louis Academy of Sciences
- Biological Society of Washington
- Sierra Club
- President of the Iowa Academy of Sciences
- Vice-president of Section G. Botany of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)
- Deutsche Bot. Gesellschaft
- British Ecological Society
- Local president of Sigma Xi
- National secretary of Phi Kappa Phi
- National president of Phi Kappa Phi
- President of the National Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs (1924)
- Secretary of Gamma Sigma Delta
- First president of the Iowa State Board of Conservation
