George Bartholomew (biologist)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George Adelbert "Bart" Bartholomew (June 1, 1919 - October 2, 2006) was an American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. During the Second World War he served as a physicist in the U.S. Naval Bureau of Ordnance. He earned his PhD at Harvard University, but was associated during the rest of his long career, until his retirement in 1989, with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981. Bartholomew was the inaugural (1993) recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society's Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.