George Henry Hamilton Tate
George Henry Hamilton Tate ( born April 30, 1894 in London, England; † December 24, 1953 in Morristown, New Jersey) was an American zoologist English origin.
Life and work
1912 Tate moved with his family from England to New York City. From 1912 to 1914 he worked as a telegraph operator in Long Iceland. In 1914 he was drafted into the British Army. Between 1918 and 1919 he studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. In 1921 he received an assistantship in the mammal department at the American Museum of Natural History. From 1921 to 1929 he took part in several expeditions of the Museum collection in South America. In 1927 he obtained the U.S. citizenship. In the same year he graduated as a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in 1931 at Columbia University. In 1932 he became Assistant Curator, 1942, an independent curator and curator at the 1946 American Museum of Natural History. In 1938 he earned his doctorate at the University of Montreal to the Ph.D.. In the 1930s and 1940s took Tate expeditions to New Guinea ( 1936-1937 ), Venezuela (1938 ), West Africa ( 1939-1940 ) and to Australia ( 1947-1948 ). 1945 and 1947 appeared Tate's best-known publications Mammals of the Pacific World and Mammals of Eastern Asia. At Tate's original descriptions, some of which were written in collaboration with Richard Archbold include Paramurexia Rothschildi, Micromurexia Habbema, the fat tail bag mice, piglets squirrels, the genus Microhydromys, the Guam flying fox and Abeomelomys Sevia.
Dedikationsnamen
Austin Loomer Rand named 1941 Lowland Käuzchenschwalm ( Aegotheles tatei ) and Bassett Maguire named in 1972, the plant genus Neotatea honor of George Henry Hamilton Tate.