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David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 January 1851
- Died
- 19 September 1931
- Place of birth
- Gainesville
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Jordan
- Father
- Hiram Jordan
- Mother
- Huldah Lake Hawley
- Sibling
- Mary Jordan Edwards
- Field of work
- ichthyology
- Occupation
- botanist, peace activist, zoologist, autobiographer, ichthyologist, eugenicist, pedagogue, writer, naturalist, scientific collector, children's writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- affiliation
- Stanford University
- author citation (zoology)
- Jordan
- collection items at
- National Museum of Natural History
- contributed to creative work
- The turtles, snakes, frogs and other reptiles and amphibians of New England and the north, Popular Science
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, The New Student's Reference Work
- educated at
- Butler University, Indiana University Bloomington, Cornell University, Indiana University School of Medicine, Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Indiana University
- employer
- Smithsonian Institution, Butler University, Indiana University Bloomington, Stanford University
- influenced by
- Louis Agassiz
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- David Starr Jordan
- nominated for
- Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize
- notable work
- Manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern United States, Synopsis of the fishes of North America, A guide to the study of fishes, A classification of fishes: including families and genera as far as known
- place of burial
- Alta Mesa Memorial Park
- student
- Masamitsu Ōshima
- topic's main category
- Category:David Starr Jordan
- writing language
- English
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