G. Evelyn Hutchinson

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George Evelyn Hutchinson (born January 30, 1903, died May 17, 1991) was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of modern limnology.

Born at Cambridge in England, Hutchinson was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and the University of Cambridge, and, after two years of lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, he joined the faculty at Yale University in 1928. His illustrious career at Yale lasted for forty-three years, and he became a US citizen in 1941.

In 1949, Hutchinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1950 to the National Academy of Science. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991.

After his retirement, he spent much of his time in England, and he died in London on May 17, 1991.

[edit] Publications

Apart from many research papers, Hutchinson wrote -

• The Clear Mirror (1936)
• The Itinerant Ivory Tower (1953)
• A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912–51 (1957)
• A Treatise on Limnology (1957, 1967, 1975, 1993)

Vol I Geography, Physics and Chemistry (1957)

Vol II Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton (1967)

Vol III Limnological Botany (1975)

Vol IV The Zoobenthos (1993)

• The Enchanted Voyage (1962)
• The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play (1965)
• Introduction to Population Ecology (1978) and
• The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist (Yale University Press, 1979)

[edit] Sources

• http://lakes.chebucto.org/PEOPLE/hutchins.html
• Announcement of Yale's G. Evelyn Hutchinson Memorial Symposium
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: G. Evelyn Hutchinson