1. Roger Yate Stanier was a Canadian microbiologist who was influential in the development of modern microbiology.
14 Facts About Roger Stanier
1. 2.
Roger Stanier received several awards over the course of his career, including the Leeuwenhoek Medal.
3.
Roger Stanier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences and the Legion d'Honneur.
4.
Roger Yate Stanier was born to British immigrant parents on 22 October 1916 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
5.
Roger Stanier's father studied medicine at the University of Toronto and later established a private practice in diagnostic radiology.
6.
Roger Stanier's father removed him from Shawnigan after he contracted pneumonia, upon his recovery he attended Oak Bay High School until his graduation in 1931 at the age of 15.
7.
Roger Stanier then enrolled at the local junior college, Victoria College, where he studied biology, literature, and history.
8.
Roger Stanier subsequently transferred to the University of British Columbia with the intention to study literature and history.
9.
Roger Stanier's parents demurred so he settled on bacteriology in order to placate his physician father, ultimately graduating with first-class Honours in bacteriology in 1936.
10.
Roger Stanier described the reasons for his departure as both academic and political: academic disruptions amid the campus turmoil associated with the Free Speech Movement, then governor Ronald Reagan's ouster of University of California president Clark Kerr, and the election of President Richard Nixon.
11.
Roger Stanier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978.
12.
Together with C B van Niel, Stanier was described by Carl Woese as one of the "only consistently insightful and articulate reporters of the early search for a microbial phylogeny".
13.
Roger Stanier invented the technique of simultaneous adaption for the analysis of metabolic pathways.
14.
Roger Stanier led the proposal to include cyanobacteria, which he called blue-green algae or cyanophytes, within the bacteria rather than consider the cyanobacteria as distinct from bacteria.