Adriaan Joseph van Rossem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAdriaan Joseph van Rossem
American ornithologist
Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1892
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 04-May-1949
Profession: ornithologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Adriaan Joseph van Rossem
- Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (December 17, 1892 in Chicago – September 4, 1949) was an American ornithologist of Dutch ancestry.
- He came from an affluent family where his father died very early in his life.
- Van Rossem went on to attend both public and private schools.
- In his teens he became influenced by Joseph Grinnell who led him into ornithology.
- He later did much work with Donald Ryder Dickey and shared the 1941 Brewster Medal with him.
- He was curator of the Donald Ryder Dickey Collection (first housed at the California Institute of Technology and later at the University of California Los Angeles) from 1912 to his death.
- He was a 1939 Guggenheim Fellow and received an honorary doctorate from Occidental College in 1948.
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