Thomas Raymond Howell
Thomas Raymond Howell | |
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Spouses | Marjorie Cade Caldwell
(m. 1951; died 1958)Trudi H. Gubler
(m. 1959; div. 1970)Eleanor Standal Dammann
(m. 1981) |
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Thomas Raymond Howell (July 17, 1924 – December 14, 2004) was an American
He studied at
He lectured at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1951 until 1986, retiring as a full professor. He chaired the biology department from 1963 to 1966. He was lifelong friends with and taught alongside George A. Bartholomew.[1]
His work in ornithology took him to Central America to study indigenous birds, Midway atoll to study seabird nesting
Outside of direct research he wrote the section on the
He was married three times, first in 1951 to Marjorie Cade Caldwell with whom he had one son; Caldwell died in 1958. He was married to Trudi Gubler from 1959 to 1970 when they divorced – they had two daughters. He married again in 1981 to Eleanor Dammann, whom survived him at his death in 2004.[1]
References
- ^ JSTOR 4090611.
- JSTOR 1364941.
- ^ Wiedenfeld, David (2001). "Sight records of new species for Nicaragua and noteworthy records on range and occurrence" (PDF). Cotinga. 15: 53–57.