Word: raper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raper, born in rural Davidson County, N.C., studied at the University of North Carolina under John Couch, a leading mycologist, and began his own exploration into the sexual development of higher fungi...
...Raper was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, serving as Secretary from 1962 to 1964. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964. Raper also served as president of the Mycological Society of America...
During World War II, Raper participated in the Manhattan project to study the biological effects of atomic radiation...
...time of his death, Raper was planning to spend a semester's sabbatical in the Netherlands to develop new techniques in cell culture and to further his botanical research...
...Raper was a resident of Lexington, and is survived by his wife, Carlene Allen; their children, Jonathan and Linda and a son, William, from a previous marriage; and four brothers and a sister...