Born to immigrants Irwin Rosen (b. 1885) and Anita Gerber Rosen (b. 1906), Rosen has an older brother: Charles Welles. Both his parents were born in Russia. Irwin came to the United States in 1889 and had a career in architecture. Anita arrived in the United States prior to 1920.[1]
Donn E. Rosen married Carmela Berritto,[2] and they had three sons,[3] one of whom, Philip Clark Rosen (1955-2020) was a herpetologist and ecologist, who spent many years studying the Sonoran Desert.[2]
Works
Rosen earned his degree in 1955, his master's in 1957, and his doctorate in 1959, all from New York University. In 1961 he joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, and was chairman of the department of ichthyology from 1965 to 1975, presiding over a collection that grew from 500,000 to 1.5 million specimens.[3]
Rosen authored over twenty-eight scientific papers, and described twenty-three species.
Selected publications
Rosen, Donn Eric; Greenwood, P. Humphry (August 26, 1970). "Origin of the Weberian Apparatus and the Relationships of the Ostariophysan and Gonorynchiform Fishes". American Museum Novitates (2428). New York, New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History.
Rosen, Donn Eric (1973). "Interrelationships of higher euteleostean fishes". In Greenwood, P.H.; Miles, R.S. & Patterson, Colin (eds.). Interrelationships of Fishes. Academic Press. pp.397–513. ISBN0-12-300850-6.
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