Lee Raymond Dice (July 15, 1887 – January 31, 1977) was an American ecologist and geneticist who taught at the University of Michigan for almost his entire career.
project, Dice worked on the movements of water fleas under Samuel Jackson Holmes.
After graduation, Dice took on the role of an instructor in zoology at Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) from 1916 to 1917 and later served as an assistant professor of zoology at the University of Montana from 1917 to 1918.
He served as president of the Ecological Society of America from 1952 to 1953 and received its Eminent Ecologist Award in 1964.
[2][5] In 1957, the University of Michigan honored him by creating the Lee R. Dice Distinguished Professorship.