Name Rolf Bolin | Role Ichthyologist | |
Books A Review of the Marine Cottid Fishes of California: A Review of the Myctophid Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Rolf Ling Bolin (22 March 1901 – 23 August 1973) was an American academic and ichthyologist.
Biography
Bolin was born on 22 March 1901 in New York City to Scandinavian American parents. He initially pursued a career in graphic arts, but then took courses in Marine Biology. Bolin was awarded a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1934. He was appointed Professor of Marine Biology and Oceanography in 1949 at Stanford, where worked until his retirement in 1967. Bolin died on 23 August 1973 in Carmel, California.
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