Sinnott, Edmund W(are) (1888–1968)

US botanist and educator. During the 1920s and 1930s he performed extensive research on the genetic determination of fruit morphology, especially squashes. He brought Yale to prominence in botany as director of Yale's Sheffield School 1945–56, and later as dean of the Yale graduate school 1950–56.

He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He taught at Harvard 1908–15, during which period he made botanical expeditions to Australasia. He then moved to the Connecticut Agricultural College 1915–28, before going on to Barnard College 1928–39, Columbia University 1939–40, and Yale 1940–56. From 1945 onward, he expounded his philosophy that science can bring about human solidarity.