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JOHN GORDON TORREY
JOHN GORDON TORREY
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As noted by Kenneth Thimann, John Torrey's Ph.D. dissertation supervisor at Harvard, Torrey "came to Harvard while still in uniform and was the first graduate student to come into the Biology Department after World War II." In 1947 while still a graduate student, he was awarded a traveling fellowship allowing him to spend a year (1948-1949)
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, and Torrey built on this knowledge to provide definitive evidence for the involvement of auxin in lateral root initiation and outgrowth. Based on his previous tissue culture experience at Harvard with Professor Ralph Wetmore, Torrey incorporated sterile culture techniques into his studies of roots, allowing him to manipulate root growth and development.
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In the early 1970s Torrey moved his research activities to the Harvard Forest, in Petersham, Massachusetts, about 60 miles west of Cambridge. Coincident with this move was a redirection and refocusing of his research to include nitrogen fixation in root nodules of perennial, nonlegume plants, with initial emphasis on the genus Comptonia (Sweet Fern)
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were published between 1978 and 1991, detailing various aspects of the development of the association between omptonia roots and Frankia. In 1965 while still in Cambridge, Torrey assumed a major administrative role as the fifth director of the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research.
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"In a tough academic world," one former female graduate advisee noted, "he was truly a hero." John Torrey was a recipient of many awards and appointments, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1965-1966) and a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Fellowship (1984)
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Although there was no relation, he was mildly bemused by the confusion occasioned by the coincidence of both their names and occupations. His wry sense of humor was not often seen but could be noted occasionally, such as when Torrey drove past a graveyard and chuckled at the sign reading "One Way." Reflecting on John Torrey, his Harvard colleagues recollected that he was "outspoken and, in his controlled way, passionate about what he thought was right and what he thought was wrong." On one occasion when a Harvard colleague off-handedly informed Torrey in his role as director of the Cabot Foundation that he (the colleague)
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JOHN GORDON TORREY 351 Some information used in preparing this remembrance was obtained from the Memorial Minute of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, appearing in the November 7, 1996, edition of the Harvard Gazette.
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37:257-264. 1951 Cambial formation in isolated pea roots following decapitation.
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Culture conditions influencing growth and nitrogen fixation in Frankia sp. HFPCcI3 isolated from Casuarina.
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Ultrastructure of infected cells in the actinorhizal root nodules of Gymnostoma papuanum (Casuarinaceae) prepared by high pressure freezing and chemical fixation.
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