Arnold B. Grobman

Arnold B. Grobman (July 20, 1918 - July 8, 2012) is an American zoologist.

Biography

Grobman was born in 1918. He received an education in a public school in Newark, New Jersey and in the University of Michigan, from which he got his bachelor degree in 1939. In 1943, he received a PhD from University of Rochester, and decided to stay there. There he became an instructor in the Department of Zoology, a position that he kept from 1943 to 1944. From 1944 to 1946, he was a Research Associate on the Manhattan Project. He moved to Florida the same year for studying in University of Florida, at which he stayed till 1959, working as an Assistant Professor. Later, he became an Associate Professor of Biology, a position that he kept from 1950 to 1952. From 1952 to 1959, he worked as a director of Florida State Museum, after which, from 1959 to 1965 he was a director of Biological Sciences Curriculum Study in the University of Colorado. He moved to Rutgers University, in 1965, where he worked as a dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for 2 years. After that, from 1967 to 1972, he worked as a dean Rutgers College. He was a Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs from 1972 to 1974, in Chicago Circle at University of Illinois. From 1974 to 1976 he was a special assistant to the President. For 10 years after that, he was Chancellor and Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. In 1986, he was named Chancellor Emeritus and Research Professor, after which he retired from his professor position in 1988. His work was focused on herpetology, but he also published some works on science in general. He held offices in many organizations, in such places as the American Association of Museums, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, on which he was a secretary from 1952 to 1957, and later as a president in 1964.^[1]

On July 8, 2012, he died in Gainesville, Florida at the age of 94.^[2]

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