John Alexander Moore

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John Alexander Moore
Born(1915-06-27)June 27, 1915
DiedMay 26, 2002(2002-05-26) (aged 86) [1]
Education
B.S Columbia College (1936)
Title
President, Society for the Study of Evolution (1963)
SpouseBetty Clark[2]
ChildrenSally Moore Gall[6]
Awards
Signature

John Alexander Moore (June 27, 1915 – May 26, 2002) was an American zoology professor.

Early life and education

Moore was born to Louise Hammond Blume and George Douglas Moore, a lawyer, in Charles Town, West Virginia in 1915. Four years later his parents divorced and Moore traveled with his mother first to

The Auk at age 15.[4] In the early 1930s Moore's mother divorced again and took the family to Washington, D.C., and then to New York City. Moore finished his last two years of high school at Haaren High School. He also volunteered at the American Museum of Natural History.[6]
Despite his humble background he was accepted to
Lester Sharp and Franz Schrader to coin the term kinetochore, which refers to a genetic structure key to chromosome congression during metazoan mitosis.[9]

Career

From 1939 to 1941 Moore tutored biology at

Fulbright Scholarship in 1952; he and his wife spent a year in Australia using cross-fertilization to study frog speciation.[10][11] The resulting monograph, published in 1961, described 94 frog species.[12] An illustration of one of the frogs discussed in Moore's monograph, the Corroboree frog, was featured on an Australian postage stamp.[4] No longer a department chair, Moore continued teaching at Columbia until 1968 when he was hired by University of California, Riverside (UCR).[13] Although Moore reached mandatory retirement age in 1982, UCR allowed Moore to keep his office and continue to teach until his death in 2002.[14][2]

Since 2013, Moore has been listed on the Advisory Council of the National Center for Science Education.[15]

Published works

In his lifetime, Moore published more than 180 journal articles and books.

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). With the wide implementation of BSCS, the yellow version sold two million copies and was adapted for use in 11 different countries.[16] During his retirement, Moore pursued improving methods of teaching science, publishing the Science as a Way of Knowing series. Moore became a vocal opponent of creationism. He wrote several publications about this issue including Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.[4] His last publication, From Genesis to Genetics, was written as a repudiation of efforts to replace the science curriculum with biblical literalism.[2]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Alberts 2011, p. 3.
  2. ^ a b c d Cardullo, Richard A.; Alberts, Bruce M.; Barkin, Kenneth D.; Chappell, Mark A.; Ruibal, Rodolfo; Taylor, Charles. "IN MEMORIAM: John Alexander Moore". University of California. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-02-11.
  3. ^ a b Alberts 2011, p. 5.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "John A Moore: A Champion of Evolution". Reports of the National Center for Science Education. 22 (6). National Center for Science Education. 2002.
  5. ^ "John Alexander Moore (1915-2002)". University of California, Riverside. February 2013. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2015-02-11.
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  7. ^ Smith, Charles H. (2005). "Moore, John Alexander (United States 1915-2002)". Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches.
  8. ^ Alberts 2011, pp. 3–4.
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  10. ^ Alberts 2011, pp. 6–7.
  11. Columbia Spectator
    . Vol. 97, no. 13. October 13, 1952. p. 1.
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  13. ^ Alberts 2011, p. 8.
  14. ^ Alberts 2011, p. 9.
  15. ^ "Advisory Council". ncse.com. National Center for Science Education. Archived from the original on 2013-08-10. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  16. ^ Alberts 2011, pp. 11.

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