| LC control no. | n 80159063 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bock, Walter Joseph, 1933-2022 |
| Variant(s) | Bock, Walter J. (Walter Joseph), 1933-2022 Bock, W. J. (Walter Joseph), 1933-2022 Bock, Walter (Walter Joseph), 1933-2022 |
| Associated country | United States Germany |
| Associated place | Ithaca (N.Y.) Cambridge (Mass.) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Urbana (Ill.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Located | Tenafly (N.J.) |
| Birth date | 1933-11-20 |
| Death date | 2022-01-07 |
| Place of birth | Woodhaven (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Zoology Biology |
| Affiliation | Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) Cornell University Harvard University Universität Frankfurt am Main University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Columbia University |
| Profession or occupation | Zoologists Biologists College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | His A generic review of the plovers. Modern aspects of species, c1986: t.p. (Walter J. Bock) Prabook (website), viewed June 17, 2022: Walter Joseph Bock (zoology educator. Walter Joseph Bock, American zoology educator. National Science Foundation grantee, 1962-1979. Bock, Walter Joseph was born on November 20, 1933 in Woodhaven, Queens County of New York City. Son of Paul and Anne (Kalsch) Bock. Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, 1955. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959. National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow Universität Frankfurt Main, 1959-1961. Assistant professor department zoology University Illinois, 1961-1964, associate professor, 1964-1965. Assistant professor department biological science Columbia University, 1965-1966, associate professor, 1966-1973, professor, since 1973. Research associate American Mus Natural History, 1965-.) <https://prabook.com/web/walter_joseph.bock/798226> Northjersey.com (website), viewed June 17, 2022: Walter Joseph Bock (Walter Joseph Bock passed away peacefully on January 27, 2022. He was born in Woodhaven Queens, New York on November 20, 1933. He resided in Tenafly, NJ for over 55 years. Walter dedicated his life to research and teaching. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1951. He then earned his B.S. from Cornell University in 1955, and his M.A. and Ph.D., from Harvard University in 1957 and 1959. His thesis advisor was Ernst Mayr, and they remained close for the rest of their careers and lives. Walter then taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before beginning a fifty-year career as a professor at Columbia University in the Department of Biological Sciences, retiring in 2016.) <https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/ber103630> |
| Associated language | eng |
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