Robert Enders

Robert Enders (1899–1988) was an American zoologist.

Biography

Enders was born in 1899 in Essex, Iowa. In 1925 and 1927 he received his A.B. and Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Michigan. After he graduated he became an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Union College, and next year got the same position at Missouri Valley College. In 1932 he was promoted to the Professor, from which he retired in 1970. During the same 1932 year he had visited Barro Colorado Island, where he had his research station in the Panama Canal Zone. He then visited BCI again as a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. After that, he continued to visit it every so often, as a Professor. He was an Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Swarthmore College in 1966 as well. He died in 1988.^[1]

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