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This article profiles Portland, Oregon-based science teacher and researcher Francis Day Curtis. In 1911, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oregon, with a major in physics and minors in chemistry and education. Curtis entered the Teachers College at Columbia University in 1923, graduating with his Ph.D. in secondary education. Curtis taught over the course of 45 years in both high schools and universities. He is widely known as one of the authors of nine high school textbooks about science and biology. Curtis also achieved the Eighth Science Education Recognition Award in the U.S. |