biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Zoologist, born in Hamburg, Germany. He went to the USA in 1939, and worked as an engineer for the Babcock and Wilcox Co, New York (1947–55). He was a fellow in biology at the University of Florida (1957–8), and taught and performed research in biology at the State University of New York, Buffalo (1958–71) before becoming a professor at the University of Michigan (1971). He concurrently served as a researcher and consultant to many zoological museums and universities worldwide. Using a biomechanical approach to vertebrate biology, he made major contributions to the systematics of reptiles and amphibians, vertebrate motor co-ordination studies, shark anatomy, electromyography, and research on the early evolution of vertebrates. |
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