Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice

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Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice

1887–1977

A pioneering American ecologist and geneticist, he spent nearly his entire career at the University of Michigan and helped shape modern work in mammalogy, heredity, and ecology. He is also remembered in mathematics and computer science for the Sørensen–Dice coefficient, which bears his name.

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Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109

Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109

by Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice, Harley Bakwel Sherman

The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86

The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86

by Lee R. (Lee Raymond) Dice

About the author

Born in Savannah, Georgia, on July 15, 1887, Lee Raymond Dice became an important American scientist whose work ranged across ecology, genetics, and the study of mammals. He taught at the University of Michigan for almost his whole professional life and built a reputation as a careful researcher as well as an academic leader.

His research is especially associated with mammalogy and heredity, including studies of variation and inheritance in Peromyscus mice. He also founded the University of Michigan's heredity clinic and later served as director of its Institute of Human Biology, reflecting how wide his scientific interests were.

Dice died on January 31, 1977. Today he is often remembered for independently developing the Sørensen–Dice coefficient, but his larger legacy is the way he connected field biology, genetics, and ecology at a time when those subjects were still taking shape.