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Mayr completed his doctorate in ornithology at the University of Berlin under Dr. Carl Zimmer, who was a full professor ( Ordentlicher Professor ), on June 24, 1926 at the age of 21.
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Peters died before finishing the work, and the last volumes, as well as updates to some of the first, were completed by Ernst Mayr, James Greenway, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. and others, with the final being volume 16 published in 1987.
Mayr and ornithology
" Mayr was endlessly interested in ornithology and " chose Greifswald at the Baltic for my studies for no other reason than that ... it was situated in the ornithologically most interesting area.
Ernst Mayr wrote that Nice almost single-handedly initiated a new era in American ornithology and the only effective counter movement against the list-chasing movement.
Mayr and at
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
After Mayr was appointed at the American Museum of Natural History, he influenced American ornithological research by mentoring young birdwatchers.
Mayr was surprised at the differences between American and German birding societies.
* Ernst Mayr telling his life story at Web of Stories
* Mayr, Gerald ( 2005 ): " Old World phorusrhacids " ( Aves, Phorusrhacidae ): a new look at Strigogyps (" Aenigmavis ") sapea ( Peters 1987 ).
Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.
Donizetti was not especially successful as a choirboy, but in 1806 he was one of the first pupils to be enrolled at the Lezioni Caritatevoli school, founded by Mayr, in Bergamo through a full scholarship.
* Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy.
* Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.
In 1931 she met Ernst Mayr at a meeting of the American Ornithologists ' Union ( AOU ), and he encouraged her to write and arranged the publishing the results of her studies.
Ernst W. Mayr, one of the 20th century's most influential evolutional biologists, studied at the University of Greifswald.
It enabled him to study at the British Museum, at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Erwin Stresemann and also at the American Museum of Natural History under Ernst Mayr.
Jean Delacour and Ernst Mayr, in their 1945 revision of the family Anatidae considered it a somewhat abnormal member of the Anatini ( or river-ducks ) group because the hind toe is slightly lobed, display behaviour and the tendency to feed at the surface.
Ernst Mayr said " It was Lankester who founded a school of selectionism at Oxford ".
His work in this area would influence Ernst Mayr, who was also an assistant at the museum from 1927 – 1930, and would contribute to the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis.
This exposure to evolutionary theory led him to do graduate work with Ernst Mayr at Harvard from 1968 to 1972.
Fürst zu Eulenburg und Hertefeld Graf von Sandels ( Starnberg, 19 September 1881-Weeze, 1 August 1963 ), married at Liebenberg, 21 May 1904 Marie Freiin Mayr von Melnhof ( Vienna, 8 April 1884-Weeze, 3 February 1960 )
Mayr and University
" He entered the University of Greifswald in 1923 and, according to Mayr himself, " took the medical curriculum ( to satisfy a family tradition ).
Mayr joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1953, where he also served as director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.
* 1980 How I became a Darwinian, Pages 413 – 423 in The Evolutionary Synthesis ( E Mayr and W Provine, Eds ) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
* Mayr, Ernst ( 1982 ) The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-36445-7.
* Mayr, E., 1963, Animal Species and Evolution, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
* Mayr, E., 1982, The Growth of biological thought, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
* Mayr, E., 2004, What Makes Biology Unique, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
* Mayr, E. & Provine, W. B., eds., 1980, The Evolutionary Synthesis, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Mayr and Berlin
From 1921 onwards he was in charge of the bird department of the Berlin Zoological Museum, and encouraged a number of young German scientists, including Ernst Mayr and Bernhard Rensch.
Mayr and under
Mayr organized a monthly seminar under the auspices of the Linnean Society of New York.
In Munich, Hitler took part in " national thinking " courses organized by the Education and Propaganda Department of the Bavarian Reichswehr under Captain Karl Mayr.
The opera's Austrian premiere was given by the Vienna State Opera on the following 8 April under the baton of Schuch with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as Octavian, and Richard Mayr as Baron Ochs.
He took part in " national thinking " courses organised by the Education and Propaganda Department ( Dept Ib / P ) of the Bavarian Reichswehr, Headquarters 4 under Captain Karl Mayr.
Mayr and Dr
Mayr was the second son of Helene Pusinelli and Dr. Otto Mayr.
The heckling of this German foreigner was tremendous, but he gave tit for tat, and any modern picture of Dr E. Mayr as a very formal person does not square with my memory of the 1930s.
This became the longest and greatest of all Beck ’ s expeditions and, as with the " Academy " expeditions, he was joined by many other accomplished biologists with complementary skills, including E. H. Quayle, J. G. Correia, Dr F. P. Drowne, Hannibal Hamlin, Guy Richards, Ernst Mayr, E. H. Bryan Jr., and others.
Mayr and .
* Mayr, Ernst.
The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.
Ernst Mayr remarks that the theory was hotly contested by some famous geneticists: William Bateson, Wilhelm Johannsen, Richard Goldschmidt and T. H.
Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for the concept of species.
Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of ( natural ) history into science.
In February 1923, Mayr passed his high school examination ( Abitur ) and his mother rewarded him with a pair of binoculars.
Raimund Schelcher ( 1891 – 1979 ) of the club then suggested that Mayr visit his classmate Erwin Stresemann on his way to Greifswald, where Mayr was to begin his medical studies.
Stresemann was very impressed and suggested that, between semesters, Mayr could work as a volunteer in the ornithological section of the museum.
Mayr wrote about this event, " It was as if someone had given me the key to heaven.
" During the first semester break Stresemann gave him a test to identify treecreepers and Mayr was able to identify most of the specimens correctly.
In New Guinea, Mayr collected several thousand bird skins ( he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime ) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species.
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