Chancey Juday

Chancey Juday ( born May 5, 1871 in Millersburg, Indiana, † March 30, 1944 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American biologist and co-founder of limnology.

C. Juday graduated from Indiana University 1896 BA and 1897 to M. A. 1900 to 1901 he taught first at the University of Wisconsin, after interludes from 1903 to 1904 at the University of Colorado and from 1904 to 1905 at the University of California in 1905, he returned back to Wisconsin. Thus began a long-term fruitful cooperation with the 21 years older EA Birge. Together they founded the Wisconsin School of Limnology on Lake Mendota and explored this lake. With the joint publication of their studies in 1911 they laid an important foundation for the limnological science.

Juday was 1927 president of the Ecological Society of America from 1935 to 1936 and president of the American Society Limnological and 1937-1939 President of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.