Stanley Howard Weitzman

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Stanley Howard Weitzman (born March 16, 1927, in Mill Valley, California; died February 16, 2017) [1] was a Research Scientist Emeritus at Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. [2]

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Life and career

He received his Bachelor's (1951) and Master's (1953) degrees in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD (1960) from Stanford University as a student of the venerable killifish expert, George Sprague Myers. Weitzman began his long and distinguished career as a Curator in the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, in 1962. At that time he moved from California with his wife Marilyn and their two children. [3]

Awards and recognition

Weitzman's outstanding research was recognized by his peers: he received the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology for an outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1991, and was honored at an international symposium on neotropical fishes in Brazil with an award for his "Invaluable Contributions to Neotropical Ichthyology" in 1997.[ citation needed ]

Taxa named in his honor

Numerous taxa have been named after Weitzman:

Taxon described by him

Publications

A Partial list.

References

  1. Parenti, Lynne R. (2017). "Stanley Howard Weitzman (1927-2017)" (PDF). Business Newsletter of the American Killifish Association. 56 (4): 14.
  2. "Stanley H. Weitzman". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  3. Smith, David G. (2007). "Stanley and Marilyn Weitzman" . Copeia. 2007 (4): 1030–1045. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[1030:SAMW]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR   25140723.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lophiobrycon". FishBase . December 2018 version.
  5. Stanley H. Weitzman; Richard P. Vari (1987). "Two new species and a new genus of miniature Characid Fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Northern South America". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 640–652.