Thus, Blinks indeed lived in a rarified environment of research breakthroughs
and keen minds. Through 70 years of research, he continued to make important contributions. Appendix 1 gives a partial list of his students and research colleagues. Acknowledgments We thank Drs. Mary Jo Ryan Duncan, Beth Hazen, and Kathleen Coffee for editorial assistance. Also thanked for evaluations are Richard Eppley, Francis Haxo, William Vidaver, and John Blinks and other participants at the symposium (A Tribute to L.R. Blinks at the Botanical Society of America annual meeting, July 29–Aug 3, 2006, Chico, California), including the speakers Isabella #Selleckchem Bleomycin randurls[1|1|,|CHEM1|]# Abbott, Cecilia Smith, Nancy Nicholson, and Mary Jo Ryan Duncan. Hopkins Marine Station is thanked for support, information and photos of L.R. Blinks. We also thank the Botanical Society of America executive board,
particularly the Phycological Capmatinib order Section, Martha Cooke, and the Physiological Section for support of this Symposium at California State University, Chico, August 2006. We thank Govindjee for inviting us to write this tribute, for his many suggestions to improve our manuscript, and for accepting it and submitting it to the typesetters. Appendix 1 Partial list of Blinks’s students and research colleagues (1920–1975) Students: R.D. Rhodes, 1938; M.L. Darsie, 1939; P.M. Brooks, 1943; J.D. Anderson, 1949; D.M. Chambers, 1951; C.S. Yocum, 1951; L.H. Carpelan, 1953; F.D.H. MacDonald, 1954; R.L. Airth, 1955; A. Gibor, 1955; R.W. Eppley, 1957; B.M. Pope, 1963; W. Vidaver, 1963; L.K. Smith, 1968; A. Thorhaug, 1969. Coworkers (Chronologically): Winthrop J.V. Osterhout; Jacques Loeb; A.G. Jacques; Anne Hof Blinks; R.D. Rhodes; M.L. Darsie R.K. Skow; R.L. Airth; G.M. Smith; C.S. Yocum; C.M. Lewis; J.H. McClendon; C.D. Pease; J.P. Nielsen; B.A. Fry; J.L. Peel; D. Saps; M.J. Pickett; D.I. Arnon; V.C. Twitty; D. Whittaker; H. Gaffron; F.T. Haxo; R. Eppley; W. Vidaver; R. F. Jones; D.V.
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