Bernard Ogilvie Dodge

Bernard Ogilvie Dodge (born April 18, 1872, Mauston, Wis., U.S.—died Aug. 9, 1960, New York, N.Y.) was an American botanist and pioneer researcher on heredity in fungi. After completing high school (1892), Dodge taught in district schools and eventually became a high school principal. At the age of 28 he resumed his formal education at the Milwaukee Normal School. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1909, where he was...