Ralph Vary Chamberlin
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Ralph Vary Chamberlin was an American zoologist from Salt Lake City, Utah
. He received his PhD from Cornell University
in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University
from 1908-1911, and at the University of Utah
from 1925-1938.
He lived with the Gosiute Indians to study plants and wrote Ethnobotany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
He married Daisy Della Ferguson in 1899. He also later married Edith Simmons in 1922.
In addition to many of his scientific writings he was also the author of The University of Utah: The First Hundred Years.
Chamberlin described 77 genera and 1001 species from 1904 to 1958, 464 species and 38 genera of them together with Wilton Ivie
.
He is the uncle of Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
, with whom he described several species of pseudoscorpion
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Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
. He received his PhD from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
from 1908-1911, and at the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
from 1925-1938.
He lived with the Gosiute Indians to study plants and wrote Ethnobotany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
He married Daisy Della Ferguson in 1899. He also later married Edith Simmons in 1922.
In addition to many of his scientific writings he was also the author of The University of Utah: The First Hundred Years.
Chamberlin described 77 genera and 1001 species from 1904 to 1958, 464 species and 38 genera of them together with Wilton Ivie
Wilton Ivie
Wilton Ivie was an American entomologist, who descriped Arachnida-species. . He was employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Wilton Ivie: B.S., M.S. in biology from University of Utah....
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He is the uncle of Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
Joseph Conrad Chamberlin was an American arachnologist who studied mainly pseudoscorpions. A native of Utah, he studied primarily at Stanford University while working most of his career in Oregon for the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
, with whom he described several species of pseudoscorpion
Pseudoscorpion
A pseudoscorpion, , is an arachnid belonging to the order Pseudoscorpionida, also known as Pseudoscorpiones or Chelonethida....
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