Alfred G. Mayer
Alfred G. Mayer (Alfred Goldsborough Mayor; April 16, 1868 – June 24, 1922) was an American
Education
Mayor was born in Frederick, Maryland, the son of Katherine Duckett (Goldsborough) and Alfred Marshall Mayer.[2] He was of part German descent. Dropping out from school at age sixteen, he began to work in a machinist's shop. To please the request of his father, Alfred enrolled in the Stevens Institute of Technology. After many years of physics-related work in several universities, Mayor left his position to pursue a career in natural history, a great interest of his. Professor Lucian I. Blake, one of Mayor's many mentors and professor of University of Kansas, stated that," [Alfred was] successful in Physics,...his true taste and longings were toward natural history." In 1897, he graduated from Harvard University with a Sc.D.[3]
Career
Mayor's most recognized work originated from his work as a successful marine biologist. He published his first book about jellyfish in 1910 titled Medusae of the World, which documented his many studies of species of jellyfish around the world.
In 1907 Mayor founded the Tortugas Laboratory on
With his wife, artist and sculptor
Works
- Rhythmical pulsation in Scyphomedusae, 1906
- Medusae of the World, 1910
Organisms named after Mayer
- Mayorella Schaeffer, 1926[6]
- Ectopleura mayeri Petersen, 1990
- Rissoina mayori Dall, 1925
- Eutiara mayeri Bigelow, 1918
- Melicertissa mayeri Kramp, 1959
- Lobonema mayeri Light, 1914
- Coeloseris mayeri Vaughan, 1918
- Porites mayeri Vaughan, 1918
- likely Gadila mayori Henderson, 1920
References
- ^ a b c Seafaring Scientist by Lester D. Stephens and Dale R. Calder: published in 2006
- ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
- ^ "Alfred Goldsborough Mayor" (PDF). nasonline.org. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1939), Florida. A Guide to the Southernmost State, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 206
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
- ^ Anna Glotova; Natalya Bondarenko; Alexey Smirnov (2018). "High Genetic Diversity of Amoebae Belonging to the Genus Mayorella (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Dermamoebida) in Natural Habitats". Acta protozoologica. 57 (1).
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