Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ernst Mayr, Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has also kept up a furious pace, despite his 82 years. Since his retirement in 1974, the former director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology has published 116 books and papers on evolution, biology and philosophy...
Joining Harvard in 1953, Mayr has also accepted several visiting professorships at various universities across the country. Writing recommendations, advising students, and giving guest lectures and seminars occupy some of Mayr's days...
Professor of Zoology Ernst Mayr, Simpson's colleague of 23 years said yesterday that he was "an extremely intelligent person who made a contribution to any area he entered...
...helped put evolutionary theory and the many disciplines of evolutionary biology on a firmer footing," said Edward O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, leading a chorus of praise for Mayr from Harvard researchers yesterday...
...Mayr has been developing the theories that won him recognition for 57 years, and has been at Harvard since...