William Lawrence Tower (22 December 1872– July 1967) was an American zoologist, born in Halifax, Massachusetts.
His professed atheism caused offense to some, including graduate student Warder Clyde Allee.
Tower caused political friction within the department and many members distrusted his professional ethics.
[9] The geneticist William E. Castle who visited Tower's laboratory was not impressed by the experimental conditions.
Castle found the fire suspicious and also Tower's claim that a steam leak in his greenhouse had destroyed all his beetle stocks.