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- Ernst Walter Mayr (/ ˈmaɪər /; German pronunciation: [maɪ̯ɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science.
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Systematics, evolutionary biology, ornithology, philosophy of biology. Ernst Walter Mayr ( / ˈmaɪər /; German pronunciation: [maɪ̯ɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) [1] [2] was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. [3]
- Ernst Walter Mayr, 5 July 1904, Kempten, Bavaria, German Empire
- German American
- 3 February 2005 (aged 100), Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Feb 16, 2005 · The achievements for which Mayr is best known fall into six areas. First, as an ornithologist he was the leading expert on birds of New Guinea and the tropical southwest Pacific; he described...
- Jared Diamond
- 2005
Feb 10, 2005 · Ernst Mayr, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who has been called “the Darwin of the 20th century,” died on Feb. 3 at a retirement community in Bedford, Mass. A member of the Harvard faculty for more than half a century, he was 100.
Jul 1, 2004 · It is fortunate that Ernst Mayr has enjoyed such a long life, because he had to fit at least four major careers into it—that of an avian systematist, an evolutionist, a historian of biology, and a philosopher of science. And he was successful in all of those careers, inside and outside ornithology.
Jul 6, 2004 · The preeminent biologist, who just turned 100, reflects on his prolific career and the history, philosophy and future of his field. On July 5, renowned evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr...
Feb 4, 2005 · Feb. 4, 2005. > Dr. Ernst Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Bedford, Mass. He was 100. Dr. Mayr's death, in a retirement community where he had...
Feb 25, 2005 · T he death of Ernst Mayr at age 100 on 3 February marks the end of a scientific era. Mayr was the last living architect of the “Modern Evolutionary Synthesis,” one of the greatest intellectual achievements of 20th-century biology. His 1942 book, Systematics and the Origin of Species, was, along with Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the ...
