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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 87 (2005)

Institute of Biological Sciences. Likely his most prestigious award occurred in 1987 when, with his brother Howard, he received the Royal Swedish Academy’s Crafoord Prize, which often is considered to be equivalent to a Nobel Prize, which is not given in the field of ecology.

PERSONAL HISTORY

Eugene Pleasants Odum was born to Anna Louise and Howard Washington Odum on September 17, 1913, while Anna Louise was vacationing on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire to escape the summer heat in Athens, Georgia. The brother of Eugene, Howard Thomas Odum, was born on September 1, 1924. Composing a tribute to Eugene that Howard Thomas was to make at the University of Georgia during the memorial entitled “A Celebration of the Life of Eugene P. Odum” on October 16, 2002, would be one of the latter acts of his life. Howard Thomas died on September 11, 2002, in Gainesville, Florida. Elizabeth C. Odum delivered the intended words of her husband, H. T., at the celebration. A sister, Mary Frances Schinhan, born on September 17, 1919, pre

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Eugene Odum is often called the "father of modern ecology" due to his contribution to ecosystem ecology. He was born in Newport, New Hampshire, and grew up in a family which attached great importance to education. His father was Howard W. Odum, a sociologist, so he adopted his father's holistic view of science. Odum, consequently, embarked on his Ph. D. in zoology with particular emphasis on ecology at the University of Illinois, where he was under the tutelage of the ecologist Victor Shelford. Odum's initial experiences at Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve laid the foundation for the latter's ecological research accomplishments, especially in ecosystem research.

Howard T. Odum, in his textbook Fundamentals of Ecology, published in 1953 together with his brother E. P. Odum, provided the base for the ecosystem concept. It was not only an academic work: the book increasingly became a focus of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. To any living system, he stressed the interdependence of the ecosystem, pointing to the fact that ecosystems rely on energy movement and nutrient c

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Eugene Odum

American biologist and systems ecologist (1913–2002)

Eugene Pleasants Odum

Born	(1913-09-17)September 17, 1913 Newport, New Hampshire, US
Died	August 10, 2002(2002-08-10) (aged 88) Athens, Georgia, US
Alma mater	University of Illinois (Ph.D.)
Known for	pioneering the concept of the ecosystem; the interdependence of divergent ecosystems as the basis of how the earth functions
Awards	Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement(1977) Crafoord Prize(1987)
Scientific career
Fields	ecologist, mathematician, natural philosopher, and systems ecologist
Institutions	University of Georgia

Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology (1953). The Odum School of Ecology is named in his honor.

Biography

Son of the sociologistHoward W. Odum, and older brother of the ecologist Howard T. Odu