Edward A. Birge

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1875-1925 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 
Area:
Zoology
Website:
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS1669
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"Edward Asahel Birge" OR "Edward A Birge"
Bio:

(1851 – 1950)
https://www.library.wisc.edu/archives/exhibits/campus-history-projects/chancellors-and-presidents-of-the-university-of-wisconsin-madison/edward-asahel-birge-president-1918-1925/
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZPPAAAAMAAJ
There appears to be some confusion about Birge's advisor at Harvard:
Agassiz died December 14, 1873, shortly after Birge's arrival there in 1873, and was succeeded by John McCrady
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZPPAAAAMAAJ
https://books.google.com/books?id=EZPPAAAAMAAJ
When the idea of getting the Ph.D. had ripened, Birge went east to Cambridge and consulted Professor Shaler. "I told him," Birge relates in the most finished of his autobiographical notes, "that I thought I knew enough zoology to warrant the degree, but that I was sure that no board of examiners could ask the questions that I could answer. My 'advanced work' in zoology was based on Gegenbaur and other German authors, and those older men would never have read them and could not ask questions that I could answer. I shall never forget the feeling which Shaler's reply inspired in me. Quite apart from any personal kindness toward me, he fairly 'jumped at' the chance of having a Harvard Ph.D in a progressive mid-western university. So I went back to Madison, made the application for an examination, etc. When I returned to Harvard for the examination and reported to Shaler, he gave me a most important piece of advice. 'Don't say that you "don't know" if the examiners ask you a question that you can't answer. Just make a shot at the answer if you can and then give them some Gegenbaur on an allied subject. They never read Gegenbaur and probably never heard of him. So don't quote him, but give them your version of some of his stuff, mixed with your own work on lakes.' I may quote this advice now Anyway I followed it; the committee recommended the doctorate for me and Harvard granted it." Ph.D., 1878.
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Mean distance: 18.27 (cluster 2)
 
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Parents

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Louis Agassiz research assistant 1873 Harvard (Marine Ecology Tree)
John McCrady research assistant 1873-1876 Harvard (Systematics Tree)
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler grad student 1878 Harvard (Physics Tree)
 (On Crustacea Cladocera Collected in Fresh Pond and Glacialis, Cambridge, Mass., 1876 and at Madison, Wis., 1877)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig post-doc 1880-1881 Universität Leipzig

Children

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Harry Luman Russell research assistant 1890 UW Madison (ID Tree)
Henry August Schuette grad student 1916 UW Madison (Chemistry Tree)
Chancey Juday research scientist UW Madison (Terrestrial Ecology Tree)
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BIRGE EA. (1949) The toad test for pregnancy. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 48: 618
BIRGE EA. (1947) The laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 46: 327
VINCENT V, BIRGE EA. (1947) Cultivation of tubercle bacilli from gastric juice; a study of the factors affecting the cultivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from gastric juice. American Review of Tuberculosis. 55: 556-64
BIRGE EA. (1946) The diagnosis of malaria. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 45: 502
BIRGE EA. (1946) The interpretation of the agglutination test. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 45: 852
Birge EA. (1939) Similarity of Chronic Infections with Salmonella Typhimurium and Tuberculosis in Guinea Pigs. American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 29: 1125-32
Birge EA. (1929) Fish and their Food Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 59: 188-194
Birge EA, Juday C. (1926) The Organic Content of Lake Water. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 12: 515-9
Birge EA. (1923) The Plankton of the Lakes Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 52: 118-130
Birge EA. (1913) ABSORPTION OF THE SUN'S ENERGY BY LAKES. Science (New York, N.Y.). 38: 702-4
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