He went on to Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) and received a B.Sc. Jack was born 15 March 1917 in Salt Lake City, UT and completed high school there in 1935. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it.
He truly was the ideal scientist described by Poincare (1958), as someone who ".does not study Nature because it is useful to do so. This was the environment that he most often shared with graduate students and those undergraduates fortunate enough to take his plant ecology classes. His spiritual home, however, was in mountains: the Uinta Mountains of Utah, the Sierra Nevada of California, the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, the Brooks Range and the Juneau ice fields of Alaska, and the Himalayas of Nepal.
Jack's academic home for most of his career was the UCD Botany Department, where he taught from 1955 until retirement in 1981. Besides his immediate family-brother Ted, wife Mary, and sons Paul, John, and James-he left behind many students and colleagues who fondly remember his great academic gifts to them and who join the family in their grief of his loss. Professor Major had a profound impact on the direction of plant ecology in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Jack Major, Professor Emeritus of Plant Ecology at the University of California, Davis (UCD), died 13 February 2001 in Davis at the age of 83. RESOLUTION OF RESPECT FOR JACK MAJOR, 1917-2001 From: M.G.
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