The Evolution of a Scholar and His School of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period"

Authors

Frank N. Egerton

Keywords

Arthur D. Hasler, limnology, limnologist, University of Wisconsin, Zoologisches Institut

Abstract

Arthur D. Hasler was born at Lehi, Utah, on January 5, 1908. No one who knows him doubts his own strong conviction that his pioneering Mormon background provided him with ethical and intellectual values that contributed substantially to his successful career. His boyhood interests were in fishing, raising livestock, camping, nature study, and the Boy Scouts. These interests did not lead him inevitably into limnology, however. While an undergraduate at Brigham Young University he seriously considered following his father's example in becoming a physician and was only deflected from that by the financial constraints of the Depression and an ill father. While considering a medical career, however, he developed a permanent interest in physiology. His major in zoology encompassed both this new subject and also many of his boyhood interests. His broad interests were to be strong assets later when he directed the Wisconsin limnological school .

Recommended Citation

Egerton, Frank N. (1987) "The Evolution of a Scholar and His School of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period"," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 23: Iss. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol23/iss3/4