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Pulitzer Prize-winner Leon Kirchner, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the Boston area premiere of his Second Piano Concerto tonight...
Died. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, 88, U.S. pioneer in oceanography; of pneumonia; in Concord, Mass. As a Harvard professor in 1930, Bigelow founded what has become one of the nation's biggest oceanographic centers, a vast complex at Woods Hole, Mass., that has charted the Gulf Stream, explained tricks of sonar to the U.S. Navy, now maps the ocean's floor and searches out ways to tap the vast underwater food potential...
...early years at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Bigelow sailed as a professional assistant on oceanographic studies with the late Alexander Agassiz in the Caribbean and Indian Oceans...
...zoologist, Bigelow was an authority on fish, and particularly on sharks and rays. He also specialized in the study of coelanterates--invertebrates such as jellyfish...
George W. Mead, curator of fishes, said last night that Bigelow "perpetuated zoology in America. In the intellectual community at Harvard, this was a man who has given more, done more, and knew more...