Chamberlin, Ralph V. (Ralph Vary), 1879-1967

LC control no.	nr 95005870
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Chamberlin, Ralph V. (Ralph Vary), 1879-1967 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Chamberlin, Ralph Vary, 1879-1967
Birth date	1879-01-03
Death date	1967-10-31
Place of birth	Salt Lake City (Utah)
Place of death	Salt Lake City (Utah)
Affiliation	University of Utah Brigham Young University University of Pennsylvania Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology
Profession or occupation	Biologists College teachers Historians Taxonomists
Found in	Agelenid spider of the genus Cicurina, 1940: t.p. (Ralph V. Chamberlin) RLIN, 2/14/95 (hdg.: Chamberlin, Ralph Vary, 1879-1967; usage: Ralph V. Chamberlin) Wikipedia, February 7, 2019 (Ralph Vary Chamberlin; Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879--October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah; he was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department; he also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world; he was a prolific taxonomist who named over 4,000 new animal species in over 400 scientific publications; he specialized in arachnids (spiders, scorpions, and relatives) and myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and relatives); after retirement he continued to write, publishing on the history of education in his home state, especially that of the University of Utah; he was born and died in Salt Lake City, Utah)
Associated language	eng