b. Pawnee
Indian Reservation near Crete, Nebraska, 15
March 1877, d. Durham, North
Carolina, 11 December
1956
His father and mother managed a trading post at
the Indian reservation where he was born. He was a very athletic
person, fought in the Spanish-American War, and graduated with a Bachelor
in Science from the University of Nebraska in 1900. He also obtained
a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1908 and received an honorary LL.D. degree from
the University of Nebraska in 1941. He did field work all over the
world.
He was a zoologist and president of the Ecological Society of America in
1925. He taught at Duke University and he was instrumental in the
creation of the Duke Marine Biological Laboratory at Beaufort, North
Carolina.
A species of blind cave fish, Ogilbia pearsei, from the
Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, was named after him. |
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