Paul Bigelow Sears

1891 - 1990

Professor of Botany, Oberlin College, 1938-1950, and Chair of the Conservation Program, Yale University.

AAAS Presidential Address: Paul B. Sears, "The Inexorable Problem of Space," Science (3 January 1958) 127:9-16.

Discipline: Plant ecology

AAAS offices held:

• Chair, Council Committee on the Evaluation of Scientific Merit, 1950 - 1951
• Chair, Committee on Publications, 1954 - 1955
• President, 1956
• Chair, Executive Committee, 1957
• Chair, Council Study on Research in Small Colleges, 1962
• Chair, Commission on Science Education, 1964 - 1965

Related Archives:

• Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives
  http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/