Henry Bryant Bigelow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Bryant Bigelow

American oceanographer

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1879

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 11-Dec-1967

Profession: zoologist, university teacher, oceanographer, marine biologist, ichthyologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Henry Bryant Bigelow (October 3, 1879 – December 11, 1967) was an American oceanographer and marine biologist. After graduating from Harvard in 1901, he began working with famed ichthyologist Alexander Agassiz.
Bigelow accompanied Agassiz on several major marine science expeditions including one aboard the Albatross in 1907.
He began working at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1905 and joined Harvard's faculty in 1906 where he worked for 62 years. In 1911, Bigelow was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He helped found the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930 and was its founding director.
During his life he published more than one hundred papers and several books.
He was a world-renowned expert on coelenterates and elasmobranchs. In 1948 Bigelow was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.