William Dawson (ornithologist)
William Ryan Dawson (24 August 1927 – 8 March 2020
Early life and education
He was born in Los Angeles and graduated from the
Career
He joined the faculty of zoology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he worked from 1953 to 1994, being appointed professor in 1962 and D.E.S. Brown Professor of Biological Science in 1981. He was also director of the Museum of Zoology at the university from 1982 to 1993. He was emeritus professor at Michigan from 1994 onwards.[citation needed]
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1963. He took part in a number of expeditions, including the R/V Alpha Helix New Guinea Expedition in 1969, the R/V Dolphin Gulf of California Expedition in 1976 and the R/V Alpha Helix Galapagos Expedition of 1978.[citation needed]
As a keen ornithologist he was a member of the
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