George Bartholomew (biologist)

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Professor George Adelbert (Bart) Bartholomew (1 June 1919 - 2 October 2006) was an eminent American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his Bachelor's and Masters of Arts 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]

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.^[2]

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