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List of Professors
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Charles Fales Powers |
1956 - 1968 |
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering 1967-68 Associate Professor of Zoology Associate Research Oceanographer IST |
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Edward R. Baylor |
1949 - 1955 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Horace W. Feldman |
1927 - 1934 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Harry W. Hann |
1929 - 1956 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Izumi Kawakami |
1965 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Douglas M. Lay |
1970 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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George W Saunders |
1962 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Douglas Woodring |
1969 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Otto Charles Glaser |
1905 - 1916 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Robert William Hegner |
1908 - 1918 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Herbert Spencer Jennings |
1899 - 1903 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Arthur Sperry Pearse |
1908 - 1911 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Alvalyn Eunice Woodward |
1927 - 1954 | Assistant Professor of Zoology |
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Dean Conant Worcester |
1895 - 1900 | Assistant Professor of Zoology & Biology |
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Frederick M. Gaige |
1917 - 1946 |
Associate Professor of Zoology Director of the Museum of Zoology Curator of Insects Museum of Zoology |
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Mary Catherine Hinchey |
1958 - 1973 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Lois A. Loewenthal |
1957 - 1983 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Arthur E. Woodhead |
1929 - 1959 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Frank Nelson Blanchard |
1919 - 1937 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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George Howard Lauff |
1956 - 1962 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Clement Lawrence Markert |
1950 - 1954 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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David L Nanney |
1951 - 1958 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Paul Albert Wright |
1947 - 1958 | Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Fanny Elizabeth Langdon |
1897 - 1899 |
Instructor in Botany & Zoology Died in 1899 |
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Lewis V. Heilbrunn |
1919 | Instructor in Zoology |
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Karl Wilhelm Genthe |
1899 | Instructor in Zoology |
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Dugald E. S. Brown |
1949 - 1968 | Professor Emeritus of Zoology |
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Karl Frederick Guthe |
1950 - 1985 | Professor of Biological Sciences |
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Robert Rush Miller |
1948 - 1986 |
Professor of Biological Sciences Curator of Fisher Museum of Zoology |
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George W. Nace |
1957 - 1985 | Professor of Biological Sciences |
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George H. Jones |
1971 - 1990 | Professor of Biological Sciences, Zoology |
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John M. Allen |
1952 - 1989 | Professor of Biology |
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Robert E. Beyer |
1965 - 1993 |
Professor of Biology Associate Professor of Zoology |
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John E Bardach |
1953 - 1971 |
Professor of Fisheries Associate Professor of Zoology |
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Earl Forest O’Roke |
1929 - 1957 | Professor of Forest Zoology |
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Marston Bates |
1952 - 1972 | Professor of Zoology |
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William H. Burt |
1935 - 1969 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Mammals |
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Irving Cantrall |
1949 - 1978 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Insects |
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James N. Cather |
1958 - 1995 |
Professor of Zoology Chair of Experimental Biology Associate Chair, Division of Biological Sciences |
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David C. Chandler |
1953 - 1974 | Professor of Zoology |
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Margaret B. Davis |
1966 - 1973 | Professor of Zoology |
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Lee Raymond Dice |
1919 - 1957 | Professor of Zoology |
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Frank E. Eggleton |
1926 - 1964 | Professor of Zoology |
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Alfred M. Elliott |
1947 - 1972 | Professor of Zoology |
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Morris Foster |
1958 - 1981 | Professor of Zoology |
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Carl Gans |
1971 - 1998 | Professor of Zoology |
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Samuel A. Graham |
1927 - 1961 | Professor of Zoology |
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Carl L. Hubbs |
1920 - 1944 | Professor of Zoology |
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Norman E. Kemp |
1947 - 1986 | Professor of Zoology |
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George Roger LaRue |
1911 - 1952 | Professor of Zoology |
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Donald M. Maynard |
1956 - 1971 | Professor of Zoology |
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Peter Olaus Okkelberg |
1910 - 1951 | Professor of Zoology |
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Jacob E. Reighard |
1889 - 1927 |
Professor of Zoology Director of Biological Station |
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Aaron Franklin Shull |
1911 - 1951 | Professor of Zoology |
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Alfred H. Stockard |
1932 - 1966 |
Professor of Zoology Director of Biological Station 1940-1966 |
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Robert Winthrop Storer |
1949 - 1985 | Professor of Zoology |
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Harrison B. Tordoff |
1957 - 1972 | Professor of Zoology |
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Henry van der Schalie |
1934 - 1977 | Professor of Zoology |
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Charles F. Walker |
1947 - 1962 | Professor of Zoology |
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Paul Smith Welch |
1928 - 1952 | Professor of Zoology |
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John B. Burch |
1955 - 2001 |
Professor of Zoology Professor of Natural Resources & Environment Curator of Mollusks, Museum of Zoology |
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Arnold G. Kluge |
1965 - 2003 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles |
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Robert B. Payne |
1970 - 2007 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology |
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Elmer Gration Berry |
1965 - 1975 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Mollusks |
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Emmet Thurman Hooper |
1938 - 1979 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Mammals |
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Theodore Huntington Hubbell |
1955 - 1968 |
Professor of Zoology Director of Museum of Zoology |
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Laurence Cooper Stuart |
1956 - 1970 | Professor of Zoology |
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Donald W. Tinkle |
1965 - 1980 |
Professor of Zoology Director Museum of Zoology |
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James Speed Rogers |
1947 - 1955 |
Professor of Zoology Director of Museum of Zoology |
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Billy E. Frye |
1961 - 1986 |
Professor of Zoology Dean of LSA 1976-1980 Vice President for Academic Affairs 1981-1986 |
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Karl Frank Lagler |
1940 - 1983 |
Professor of Zoology Professor of Natural Resources |
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Josselyn Van Tyne |
1928 - 1957 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Birds |
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Norman Edouard Hartweg |
1938 - 1964 |
Professor of Zoology Curator of Reptiles & Amphibians |
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Tahir M. Rizki |
1961 - 1994 | Professor of Zoology |
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Philip Myers |
1982 - 2014 |
Professor of Zoology Curator, Museum of Zoology |
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Joseph Beale Steere |
1876 - 1894 |
Professor of Zoology & Paleontology Curator of the Museum |
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Abram Sager |
1842 - 1874 |
Professor of Zoology and Botany (Librarian 1848-1850) Professor of Obstetrics & Physiology Chair OB/GYN 1850-1874 |
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Frank F. Hooper |
1948 - 1986 | Professor of Zoology, Fisheries |
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Eugene Woldmar Hilgard |
1872 - 1897 |
Professor of Zoology, Geology Chair of Geology and Mineralogy |
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Berwind Peterson Kaufmann |
1962 - 1967 |
Professor, Botany & Zoology Senior Research Scientist |
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Clifford J. Smith |
1975 - 1976 | Visiting Professor of Zoology |