George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson

male, deceased (1984)
Harvard University, Columbia University, zoology, Curator, twentieth century, american museum of natural history…MuseumofComparativeZoology, National Medal of Science recipient, evolution of the horse
George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 - October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their...
Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour

male, deceased (1946)
Harvard University, Naturalist, Herpetologist, American, MuseumofComparativeZoology, Cambrdge
Thomas Barbour (1884 - 1946) was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in...

William Brewster

male, deceased (1919)
MuseumofComparativeZoology, Harvard University, Ornithologist, American, bird, American Ornithologists' Union…Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts, Birds of the Cape Regions of Lower California, Comparative Zoology
William Brewster (July 5, 1851 - 1919) was an American ornithologist. Brewster was the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at...
Henry Bryant Bigelow

Henry Bryant Bigelow

male, deceased (1967)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, elasmobranch, coelenterate, Henry B. Bigelow, American, Alexander Agassiz…MuseumofComparativeZoology, University of Washington, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Academy of Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henry B. Bigelow was a pioneering oceanographer and marine biologist. After graduating from Harvard in 1901, he began working with famed...
Nathan Banks

Nathan Banks

male, deceased (1953)
Entomologist, hymenoptera, American, USDA, MuseumofComparativeZoology, Neuroptera
Nathan Banks (1868 - 1953) was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina (mites). He started...
Ludlow Griscom

Ludlow Griscom

male, deceased (1959)
Harvard University, Ornithologist, American, american birding association, Peabody Essex Museum, MuseumofComparativeZoology
Ludlow Griscom (June 17, 1890-May 28, 1959) was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology. Ludlow Griscom was born in New...
Samuel Garman

Samuel Garman

male, deceased (1927)
Samuel Walton Garman, American, American ichthyologist, ichthyology, Naturalist, Ichthyologist…MuseumofComparativeZoology
Samuel Walton Garman (1846- 1927) was a naturalist/ zoologist from Pennsylvania. He studied under Louis Agassiz. In 1868 he joined an expedition to...
Frank M. Carpenter

Frank M. Carpenter

male, deceased (1994)
Harvard University, Entomologist, Paleontologist, treatise, American, MuseumofComparativeZoology…Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoölogy
Frank M. Carpenter (1902-1994) received his PhD from Harvard University, and was curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative...

Outram Bangs

male
zoologist, Ornithologist, Harvard, American, MuseumofComparativeZoology
Outram Bangs (January 12, 1863-September 22,1932) was an American zoologist. Bangs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and studied at Harvard from...
Frederic Ward Putnam

Frederic Ward Putnam

male, deceased (1915)
Harvard University, Anthropologist, Naturalist, Science writer, american anthropological association, American naturalist…National Academy of Sciences, MuseumofComparativeZoology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Frederic Ward Putnam was an American naturalist and anthropologist. He had little education, but became the student of Louis Agassiz at the Museum...