Robert Stanley Breed

Science writer, Deceased Person

1877 – 1956

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Who was Robert Stanley Breed?

Robert Stanley Breed was an American biologist, born in Brooklyn, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1898, an M.S. from the University of Colorado in 1899, and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1902. In 1902 he became professor of biology at Allegheny College and was there secretary of the faculty in 1907–1910. He became known especially for his researches on the post-embryonic development of insects and for his contributions to scientific journals on the public milk supply. In 1903 he published The Changes which Occur in the Muscles of a Beetle during Metamorphosis.

In 1913, Breed became head of bacteriology at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York. In 1927, he served as president of the Society of American Bacteriologists. From the 1920s until his death in 1956, he was a principal editor of Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology.

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Born
Oct 17, 1877
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Amherst College
  • Harvard University
Lived in
  • Pennsylvania
Died
Feb 10, 1956

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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