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| | Handbook of Texas Online: GEISER, SAMUEL WOOD |
 | | Samuel Wood Geiser, biologist and historian of science, son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, was born at Independence, Iowa, on June 11, 1890. |
 | | He attended Upper Iowa University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a master's degree in 1919, and Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1922. |
 | | Geiser taught for four decades: at Guilford College in North Carolina (1914-16), Upper Iowa University (1917-19), Washington University in St. Louis (1922-24), and Southern Methodist University (1924-57). |
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