George A. Bartholomew

George Adelbert "Bart" Bartholomew (June 1, 1919 – October 2, 2006) was an American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. During the Second World War he served as a physicist in the U.S. Naval Bureau of Ordnance. He earned his PhD at Harvard University, but was associated during the rest of his long career, until his retirement in 1989, with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1]

George A. Bartholomew
Born(1919-06-01)June 1, 1919
Independence, Missouri
DiedOctober 2, 2006(2006-10-02) (aged 87)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.[2] Bartholomew was the inaugural (1993) recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research.[3]

Bartholomew is also recognized for the large number of prolific scientists that trained under his supervision. Specifically, 39 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and one Master’s student were trained in his lab at UCLA. These students went on to train their own students, and as of 2005 his lineage spanned a maximum of seven generations and included nearly 1,200 individuals.[4] Bartholomew is so well respected among contemporary biologists that it is a source of pride to claim to be in the "Bartholomew Tree", which is to be an academic descendant of Bartholomew.[5]

References
  1. UCLA Biology: George A. Bartholomew Obituary
  2. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  3. COS: Miller Awards Archived August 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. The Academic Genealogy of George A. Bartholomew http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/45/2/231.pdf
  5. "Academic Genealogy of George Bartholomew". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
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