Robert Rush Miller
Robert ( "Bob" ) Rush Miller ( born April 23, 1916 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, † February 10, 2003 in the U.S. ) was an ichthyologist ( a fish expert ), zoologist and evolutionary biologist.
Early years
The father of Robert, Ralph Gifford Miller, was a lawyer. Robert Miller was the youngest of four brothers. In his childhood his parents moved to the Los Angeles area. His father wanted him to study geology. This scientific discipline, he finished first at the University of California at Berkeley, but when he discovered on field studies small fish in desert areas, his interest developed in this direction. He studied at Pomona College in Berkeley and graduated from college in 1939 as " a student prior to the first degree" from. There he meets the major U.S. ichthyologist Professor Carl Leavitt Hubbs, with whom he often collaborated later.
In 1940 he married Frances Hubb, the daughter of Hubbs, with whom he cooperated time of their lives with his scientific work. With her he had five children, including two twin children.
Years as a scientist
His studies he completed in 1943 at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree. In 1944 he received his doctorate at Hubbs. He was then hired by the Smithsonian Institution at the National Museum of Natural History. His first work at the Smithsonian Institution in 1946 led him to Guatemala.
In 1948 he was admitted as an expert in ichthyology at the American - Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, and collected in the eight -month expedition 30,000 fish specimens. Even in the course of the expedition, he received an offer to Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Michigan, which he accepted and held this post until 1954.
From 1948 to 1959 he was assistant curator of ichthyology at the Museum of Zoology, and from 1954 to 1959 assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Michigan. 1960 he was appointed Professor of Biological Sciences and the curator of ichthyology at the University of Michigan.
1965 he was appointed President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1965 to 1979 he was chairman of the Desert Fishes Council from 1973 to 1974, he was Guggenheim Fellow.
Together with WL Minckley he discovered endemic in Mexico fish Xiphophorus gordoni whose existence is endangered today. They called him the honor after Myron Gordon.
Robert Miller was awarded several times, in 1989 with the Service Award of the American Fisheries Society, and in 1994 with the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Work (selection)
Robert Rush Miller's list of publications includes about 250 works.
- Robert R. Miller, Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1948 ): The Zoological Evidence: Correlation Between Fish Distribution and Hydrographic History in the Desert Basins of Western United States.
- Robert R. Miller ( 1961): Man and the Changing Fish Fauna of the American Southwest ( 1961): Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.
- Robert R. Miller, Karl Frank Lagler, John E. Bardach (1962 ): Ichthyology, University of Michigan
- Robert R. Miller, WL Minckley (1963 ): Xiphophorus gordoni, A New Species of Platyfish from Coahuila, Mexico, Copeia, 1963 ( 3). Pp. 538-546.
- Robert R. Miller ( 1966): Geographical distribution of Central American Freshwater Fishes, Copeia.
- Robert R. Miller ( posthumously published in 2004 ), Steven Mark Norris, WL Minckley: Freshwater Fishes of Mexico.