Walles Thomas Edmondson (April 24, 1916 – January 10, 2000), also known as "Tommy" amongst his peers, was a prominent professor of zoology at the University of Washington.
[1][2] Edmondson was also leading American limnoecologist and writer, whose research focused on the causation and effects of eutrophication by plankton and his early work on rotifer taxonomy from Hispaniola, the Himalayas and lakes across the United States.
[1] Edmondson was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he would spend much of his youth at Lake Michigan learning about its biology.
[5] Edmondson was known for his unconventional thought process and used many disciplines for his research, much of which included: systematics, fixation methods, and substrate effects.
[1] In 2009, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honored Edmondson by renaming an award for distinguished service to the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award which recognizes "members who have displayed exceptional efforts that support the professional goals and enhance the stature of ASLO.