Haldan Keffer Hartline, 22 December 1903 - 18 March 1983

@article{Granit1985HaldanKH,
  title={Haldan Keffer Hartline, 22 December 1903 - 18 March 1983},
  author={Raǵnar Granit and Frank E. Ratliff},
  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},
  year={1985},
  pages={262 - 292}
}
  • R. Granit, F. Ratliff
  • Published 1 November 1985
  • History
  • Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
Haldan Keffer Hartline was of genuine ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ stock. His grandfather, James A. Hartline, a cabinet maker and also a farmer was from Reading, Pennsylvania. With his wife Hettie (Esther Ann) Schollenberger he lived as a farmer in Berks county, a Pennsylvania Dutch settlement (Dutch = Deutsch = German). One of the children of this couple was Daniel Schollenberger Hartline (b. 1866). This farmer boy rose in education to become a teacher in the natural sciences at Bloomsburg State… 
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