Lewis Stadler's research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radiation on economically important plants like maize and barley.
11 Facts About Lewis Stadler
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Lewis John Stadler was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1896 to Henry Louis and Josephine Ehrman Stadler.
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Lewis Stadler returned again to the University of Missouri and completed his PhD in 1922.
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Lewis Stadler remained at Missouri until 1954 and acted as a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, and Yale University.
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Lewis Stadler simultaneously held an appointment with the US Department of Agriculture beginning in 1930.
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Lewis Stadler was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1938.
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Lewis Stadler was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1941 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949.
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Lewis Stadler completed presidential terms for several academic organizations, including Genetics Society of America, American Society of Naturalists, and Sigma Xi.
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In 1948 Lewis Stadler was appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, which met in Stockholm.
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However, the US Department of Agriculture rejected his passport application and conducted a loyalty investigation; Lewis Stadler initially thought it was a State Department action.
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Lewis Stadler did much work on the effects of X-ray treatments, and did comparative studies of mutation caused by X-rays and by ultraviolet rays.