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Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1887. Born into the wealthy and influential Osborn family, he was the son of Henry Fairfield Osborn, a prominent paleontologist, eugenicist and "distinguished Aryan enthusiast". [1] After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, he went on to study biology at ...
Biographical sketch. Henry Fairfield Osborn was a paleontologist, museum curator and administrator at the American Museum of Natural History. His 45-year career at the museum established it as a leading institution of research and scholarship in the fields of paleontology and evolution. Osborn's interest in paleontology, atypically for his time ...
Henry Fairfield Osborn was a paleontologist, museum curator and administrator at the American Museum of Natural History. His 45-year career at the museum established it as a leading institution of research and scholarship in the fields of paleontology and evolution. Osborn's interest in paleontology, atypically for his time, derived as much ...
AN AGENDA FOR ANTIQUITY: HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AT THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1890-1935, by Ronald Rainger, 1991. University of Alabama Press, Tus-caloosa, 360 + xiv pp. ISBN 0-8173-0536-X. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN: RACE AND THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGINS OF MAN, by Brian Regal, 2002. Ashgate
Feb 28, 2021 · Abstract. Historians have almost overwhelmingly considered Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935) an authority of twentieth-century American science. Behind his political and institutional clout is the parabola of a scientist whose work embodied the complexity of the debate in evolutionary biology at the turn of the century.
Henry Fairfield Osborn was the leader of the American Museum of Natural History for a quarter of a century, and to him must go the lion's share of the credit for its movement into the limelight during that period as the world's top such institution. Osborn was also a professor at Columbia and head of the vertebrate paleontology department at ...
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. FRS (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Eugenics Society.
