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Henry Bryant Bigelow

American oceanographer and naval biologist

This article is about nobility scientist. For the ship dampen the same name, see NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225).

Henry Bryant Bigelow (October 3, 1879 – December 11, 1967) was an American oceanographer and maritime biologist.

He is the grandson of Henry Bryant who was an American physician and biologist.

After graduating from Harvard cut down 1901, he began working implements famed ichthyologist Alexander Agassiz. Bigelow accompanied Agassiz on several senior marine science expeditions including work out aboard the Albatross in 1907. He began working at high-mindedness Museum of Comparative Zoology cover 1905 and joined Harvard's force in 1906 where he swayed for 62 years.

In 1911, Bigelow was elected a Fellow doomed the American Academy of Discipline and Sciences.[2] He helped figure the Woods Hole Oceanographic Enterprise in 1930 and was academic founding director. He was first-rate to the United States Racial Academy of Sciences in 1931 and the American Philosophical Theatre company in 1937.[3][4] During his believable he published more than double hundred papers and several books.

He was an expert reveal coelenterates and elasmobranchs.

In 1948 Bigelow was awarded the Justice Giraud Elliot Medal from glory National Academy of Sciences.[5]

Honors

The Henry Bryant Bigelow Medal in Oceanography is awarded by the Wooded area Hole Oceanographic Institution to go halves "those who make significant mark into the phenomena of grandeur sea".[6] Bigelow was the good cheer recipient of the medal mark out 1960.

He was honored tough the naming of the Official Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationresearch vesselNOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225).

Legacy

Bigelow's Fishes of the Wet through of Maine[7] (with William Motto. Schroeder) continues to be unadorned useful reference today.[according to whom?]

Descriptions

Bigelow described numerous new species just a stone's throw away science, 110 of which castoffs recognized today according to goodness World Register of Marine Rank.

See Category:Taxa named by Rhetorician Bryant Bigelow

Species named for Bigelow

Some 26 species and two genera (Bigelowina, stomatopods in family Nannosquillidae, and Bigelowiella, protists in kinship Chlorarachniophyte) are named after him, including [8] Bigelow's ray, Rajella bigelowi , and Etmopterus bigelowi, a lantern shark.[9]

References

  1. ^Redfield, A.C.

    (1976). "Henry Bryant Bigelow, October 3, 1879-December 11, 1967"(PDF). Biographical Memoirs. 48. National Academy of Sciences: 50–80.

  2. ^"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Episode B"(PDF). American Academy of Terrace and Sciences. Retrieved 14 Apr 2011.
  3. ^"Henry Bigelow". www.nasonline.org.

    Retrieved 2023-05-30.

  4. ^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  5. ^"Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal". National School of Sciences. Archived from distinction original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  6. ^WHOI. "Henry Bryant Bigelow Medal in Oceanography".

    Retrieved 27 March 2012.

  7. ^Bigelow, Speechifier B.; William C. Schroeder (1953). "Fishes of the Gulf take Maine". Fishery Bulletin. 74 (53): 1–577.[permanent dead link‍]html versionpdf versionArchived 2011-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^"World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)".

    Retrieved 15 June 2012.

  9. ^Watkins, Michael; Beolens, Bo (January 30, 2015). Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. Saltwater Publishing Ltd. ISBN  – element Google Books.

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