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Charles Gald Sibley è morto
Ciao
Charles !
un
grazie da tutti gli ornitologi italiani
A.B. 1940; Ph.D. 1948 in Zoology,
University of California, Berkeley.
Minor fields: Paleontology, Botany.
1940-1941: Graduate School,
University of California, Berkeley.
1941-1942: Field Biologist,
Bubonic Plague Suppressive Measures, U.S.
Public Health Service.
1942-1945: U.S. Navy, Ensign
to Lieut. Communications and Medical Service
Corps.
1946-1948. Graduate School,
University of California, Berkeley.
1948-1949: Instructor in
Zoology and Curator of Birds, University of Kansas.
1949-1953: Assistant Professor
of Zoology, San Jose State College, California.
1953-1965: Associate Professor
and Professor of Zoology; Curator of Birds;
Cornell University.
1965-1986: Professor of Biology
and William Robertson Coe Prof. of
Ornithology, Dept of Biology; and Curator of Birds, Peabody Museum
of Natural History, Yale
University.
1970-1976: Director, Peabody
Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
1986: Professor of Biology,
Emeritus, Yale University.
1986-1992: Dean's Professor
of Science and Prof. of Biology, San Francisco
State University.
1993- Adjunct Prof. of Biology,
Sonoma State University (by invitation).
Field Experience:
United States: all regions and states. Mexico: six trips
(1939, 1941 (2), 1946, 1948,
1950. Honduras: 1973. Costa Rica: 1972. South
America: 1956, six countries.
Europe: 1954, 1958, 1959-60 (sabbatic year),
1966, 1970, 1982, 1984, 1985
- mostly short visits; Africa: 1964, 1974, six
countries, short visits.
Australia: 1963, 1968, 1974, 1983, short visits.
New Guinea: 1945, 1968, 1969.
New Zealand: 1964, 1983, 1990. New Hebrides,
Solomon Islands, Bismarck
Archipelago, Philippines: 1944-1945, 19 months.
Japan: Dec. 1992.
Research
Experience: Fossil birds, 1939-1942. Geographic
variation,
speciation, and interspecific
hybridization in wild bird populations,
1941-1957. Biochemical and
molecular studies of proteins and DNAs of birds
and mammals -- phylogeny
reconstruction, classification, rates of genomic
evolution, etc. 1957-1998.
Affiliations
and Other Activities:
Member of ca. 15 scientific
societies, U.S. and foreign;
Fellow, Honorary, or Corresponding
Fellow of seven; officer or council
member of five - 1946-present.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1959-1960.
Oxford University.
Treasurer, American Ornithologists'
Union, 1953-1962.
Secretary-General, 13th International
Ornithological Congress, 1958-1962.
Brewster Memorial Medal of
the American Ornithologists' Union, 1971.
Editorial Board, Evolution,
(past).
Editorial Board, Journal
of Molecular Evolution, 1983-present.
Editorial Board, Molecular
Biology and Evolution, 1986-present.
Editorial Board, Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution, 1991 -present.
President, American Ornithologists'
Union, 1986-1988.
President, 20th International
Ornithological Congress, 1986-1990. New Zealand.
Member, National Academy
of Sciences, U.S.A., elected 1986.
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal,
National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 1988
Alessandro Ghighi Medal,
National Institute of Wildlife Biology, Italy. 1991.
Publications:
1939-present - 132 titles, of which 77 pertain to molecular
systematics and evolution.
Four books: "Phylogeny and
Classification of Birds" (with Jon Ahlquist).
Yale Univ. Press. 1990
"Distribution and Taxonomy
of Birds of the World" (with Burt Monroe). Yale
Univ. Press. 1990
"A World Checklist of Birds"
(with Burt Monroe). Yale Univ. Press. 1993.
"Birds of the World by Dr.
Charles Sibley." Thayer Birding Software. 1995
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