# Edward Smith Deevey Jr.

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'''Edward Smith Deevey Jr.''' (3 December 1914 – 29 November 1988), born in [Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York), was a prominent American [ecologist](/source/ecologist) and [paleolimnologist](/source/paleolimnology), and an early protégé of [G. Evelyn Hutchinson](/source/G._Evelyn_Hutchinson) at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University). He was a creative pioneer in several areas, including quantitative [palynology](/source/palynology), cycling of natural [isotope](/source/isotope)s, [biogeochemistry](/source/biogeochemistry), [population dynamics](/source/population_dynamics), [systematics](/source/systematics) and [ecology](/source/ecology) of freshwater [zooplankton](/source/zooplankton), and he promoted the use of life tables in ecology.<ref>W. T. Edmondson, [http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/deevey-edward.pdf Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., December 3, 1914 — November 29, 1988], ''Biographical Memoirs'', [National Academy of Sciences](/source/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences).</ref><ref name="NYT">[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/02/obituaries/edward-s-deevey-73-biologist-and-ecologist.html Edward S. Deevey, 73, Biologist and Ecologist], ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'', December 2, 1988</ref>

In 1938, Deevey received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Yale University as a student of Hutchinson.<ref name="Smith">[http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/SEAR1891.htm Chrono-Biographical Sketch] by Charles H. Smith, Western Kentucky University, link confirmed 30 December 2011.</ref> He taught at Yale from 1946 to 1968. In 1971, he became curator of paleoecology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a research professor at the University of Florida, where he remained until the time of his death.<ref name="NYT" /><ref name="Smith" />

Deevey served as president of the [Ecological Society of America](/source/Ecological_Society_of_America) in 1969–70, and in 1982, received the [Eminent Ecologist Award](/source/Eminent_Ecologist_Award) from that organization.<ref name="Smith" /><ref name="ESA">[http://www.esa.org/history/biogr/Deevey_ES.pdf Edward S. Deevey, Jr., President 1969-70] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601031403/http://www.esa.org/history/biogr/Deevey_ES.pdf |date=2012-06-01 }}, Ecological Society of America website, retrieved 30 December 2011.</ref> He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.<ref name="Smith" />

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