| Authorised form of name | Stebbins; George Ledyard (1906 - 2000) |
| Dates | 1906 - 2000 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Lawrence, New York |
| Date of birth | 06/01/1906 |
| Date of death | 19/01/2000 |
| Research field | Genetics |
| Activity | Education:
Harvard University, studied taxonomy, biogeography, cytology
Career:
Colgate University (1931-1935); Geneticist, University of California, Berkeley (1935-1950); helped to found genetics department at University of California, Davis (from 1950); Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 13/05/1999 |
| Age at election | 93 |
| PublishedWorks | Variation and Evolution in Plants; Flowering Plants: Evolution above the species level (1974; Evolution (1977) coauthored with Dobzhansky, Ayala, and Valentine |
| Source | Sources:
Obituaries: Nature vol 404 p 562 (6 April 2000)
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 397-408, plate, by Anthony D Bradshaw FRS and Vassiliki B Smocovitis |
| Code | NA2968 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1999/45 | Stebbins, George Ledyard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1998 |