Otis Freeman Curtis (12 February 1888, Sendai, Japan – 4 July 1949, Cape Cod, Massachusetts)[1] was an American botanist and plant physiologist, at the State Agricultural Experimental Station, and professor of botany at Cornell University.
[2]: 66 His parents were in Japan because his father, a Congregational minister, was working as a missionary.
from Oberlin College and, influenced by Susan Percival Nichol, focused on botany.
[1] Among his doctoral students was Thomas Wyatt Turner, the first Black American to receive a PhD in botany.
He was the author of the monograph The Translocation of Solutes in Plants[4] in 1935 that, through critical review, encouraged further research in this area.