Jim Gary

Jim Gary

male, deceased (2006)
death by cerebral hemorrhage, dinosaur, sculptor, Time Magazine, automobile, smithsonian institution…nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, deeply sorry to hear of his death
Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts and was...
Ives Goddard

Ives Goddard

male
linguist, Algic, Delaware language, Massachusett language, R. H. Ives Goddard, III, Society of Fellows of Harvard University…Handbook of North American Indian, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, Department of Anthropology
R. H. Ives Goddard, III is curator and senior linguist in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History at the...

Laurence Skog

male
Botanist, flowering plant, smithsonian institution, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, American, Gesneriaceae
Laurence Edgar Skog (born April 9, 1943) is an American botanist who specializes on the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. From 1973 to 2003 he...

R. Tucker Abbott

male
Harvard University, malacologist, malacology, schistosomiasis, Delaware Museum of Natural History, The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum…The Kingdom of the Seashell, Seashells of the World, Academy of Natural Sciences, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory
Robert Tucker Abbott (September 28, 1919 - November 3, 1995) was an American conchologist and malacologist and the author of more than 30 books on...

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel

male, deceased (1854)
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Botanist, University of Paris, Parisian, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, histology…French Academy of Sciences
Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cytology. A native Parisian, at t...

Aleš Hrdlička

male, deceased (1943)
American, Indian, Curator, czech, smithsonian institution, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory…Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had left there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia (t...
Joseph Bruno Slowinski

Joseph Bruno Slowinski

male, deceased (2001)
Deaths due to animal attacks, killed by animals, venom, juvenile, biology, myanmar…nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, California Academy of Sciences, University of Miami, University of Kansas
"Joseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski", Ph.D (November 15, 1962-September 12, 2001) was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid...
Austin Hobart Clark

Austin Hobart Clark

male, deceased (1954)
Martinique Parrot, Lesser Antillean Macaw, antilles, zoology, entomology, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory…Entomological Society of Washington, Animals of Land and Sea
Austin Hobart Clark (December 17, 1880 - October 28, 1954) is an American zoologist. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts and died in...

Albert Charles Smith

male, deceased (1999)
American Society of Plant Taxonomist, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory, American, Botanist
Albert Charles Smith (1906 - 1999) was an American botanist. He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired on several...

William Doherty

male, deceased (1901)
new guinea, Entomologist, east africa, american museum of natural history, burma, lepidoptera…carnegie museum, nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory
William Doherty (May 15, 1857, Cincinatti- May 25, 1901 Nairobi) was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected...