Dwight Billings - Life Chronology

Life Chronology

--born in Washington, D.C., on 29 December 1910.

--1933: A.B., Butler University

--1935: A.M., Duke University

--1936: Ph.D., Duke University

--1936-1937: instructor, botany, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

--1938-1940: instructor, University of Nevada, Reno

--1940-1952: assistant to full professor, University of Nevada

--1950-1952: department head, biology, University of Nevada

--1952-1957: editor, Ecology

--1952-1958: associate professor, Duke University

--1955: honorary D.Sc., Butler University

--1958-1967: professor, Duke University

--1959: Fulbright research scholarship in New Zealand

--1959: publishes "An Alpine Snowbank Environment and its Effects on Vegetation, Plant Development, and Productivity" in Ecology, with L. C. Bliss

--1962: receives the Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America

--1964: publishes his Plants and the Ecosystem

--1967: made James B. Duke Professor of Botany, Duke University

--1968: publishes "The Ecology of Arctic and Alpine Plants" in Biological Reviews

--1974: publishes his Vegetation and Environment

--1977: research fellow, Australian National University

--1978-1979: president, Ecological Society of America

--1981: receives distinguished service award from the Ecological Society of America

--1982: publishes "Arctic Tundra: A Sink or Source for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in a Changing Environment?" in Oecologia

--1983: made affiliated professor, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska

--1983: appointed adjunct research professor, Institute of Desert Research, University of Nevada

--dies at Durham, North Carolina, on 4 January 1997.