Nationality American | Name Robert Miller | |
 | ||
Born April 23, 1916 , Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States ( 1916-04-23 ) Books Freshwater Fishes of Mexico, Hydrographic History and Relict Fishes of the North-Central Great Basin Education University of Michigan (1944), University of California, Berkeley Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Alma mater University of Michigan Similar Carl Leavitt Hubbs, Charles Eric Dawson, Bashford Dean Born February 10, 2003 (aged 86) | ||
Robert Rush Miller (April 23, 1916 – February 10, 2003) "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."
He was born in Colorado Springs, earned his bachelor's degree at University of California, Berkeley in 1938, a master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1943, and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1944. He received tenure at the University of Michigan in 1954.
Together with W. L. Minckley, he discovered a new species of platyfish, Xiphophorus gordoni, that they named in honor of Dr Myron Gordon. He served as the ichthyological editor of Copeia from 1950 to 1955.
Selected publications
References
Robert Rush Miller Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA