| LC control no. | n 50014407 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Traylor, Melvin A. (Melvin Alvah), 1915-2008 |
| Birth date | 1915-12-16 |
| Death date | 2008-02-11 |
| Place of death | Evanston (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Ornithology Winds Ocean waves |
| Affiliation | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Profession or occupation | Ornithologists |
| Found in | His Birds from the Yucatan peninsula, 1941. His Notes on tyrant flycatchers (Aves, Tyrannidae), 1982: t.p. (Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.) Chicago tribune WWW site, Feb. 20, 2008 (Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.; d. Feb. 11, Evanston, aged 92; noted ornithologist; flycatcher specialist; went on field trips to collect specimens in the jungles of Africa and Latin America; son of a prominent Chicago banker) Wikipedia WWW site, Feb. 20, 2008 (Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr.; b. Dec. 16, 1915; d. Feb. 11, 2008) LC database, Feb. 20, 2008 (hdg.: Traylor, Melvin Alvah; usage: Melvin A. Traylor [with or without "Jr."]) Information from 678 converted Dec. 19, 2014 (b. 1915) Munk, Walter H. Refraction of ocean waves, 1946: caption (Walter H. Munk and Melvin A. Traylor) Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2008, viewed online October 22, 2018: Melvin A. Traylor Jr.: 1915 - 2008 (In 1943, he lost his left eye during fierce fighting on the atoll of Tarawa. Cleared from battle duty, he returned to the Pacific to do research on wind and waves for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography that was deemed crucial to Navy operations.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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