Frederick Bayer
Frederick Merkle Bayer (born October 31, 1921 in Asbury Park , † October 2, 2007 in Washington, DC ) was an American zoologist . He was a curator at the Smithsonian Institution at the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall , Washington, DC Bayer was a leading marine biologist specializing in soft corals .
Live and act
Mr. Bayer worked for the museum from 1947 to 1961 and again from 1975 to 1996. In the meantime, he was a professor at the University of Miami Marine Science School and participated in deep-sea expeditions collected in the Caribbean and from West Africa. He wrote scientific books and more than 130 papers on the natural history and taxonomy (the scientific classification of plants and animals) of soft corals , including octocorallia such as gorgonians and sea whips. He described more than 170 new species, 40 new genera, and three new families according to a Smithsonian colleague Stephen Cairns . Emperor Hirohito of Japan , who is also a marine biologist, named one of his hydroids Hydractinia bayeri in Mr. Bayer's honor, Cairns said. On a state visit to Washington in 1975, Hirohito had received from Mr. Bayer a valuable snail shell the size of a hat.
During the Second World War he served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific as a photographic technician. In his spare time he collected and raised clams, fish and butterflies.
A graduate of the University of Miami , he received a masters degree in taxonomy from George Washington University in 1954 and a PhD in taxonomy from the same school in 1958. As a bio-illustrator, and he has done 14 scientifically accurate underwater photographs for a series Painted from Haitian postage stamps used in 1973, Cairns said.
From 1972 to 1995 Bayer was a member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature , the Body, and the settlement of disputes over zoological classification.
Literature (selection)
- Frederic M. Bayer, Manfred Grasshoff, Jacob Verseveld: Illustrated trilingual glossary of morphological and anatomical terms applied to octocorallia
- Frederic M. Bayer, Gilbert L. Voss: Studies in tropical American mollusks , university of miamy press, 1971
- Frederic M. Bayer: Treatise on invertebrate paleontology
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bayer, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bayer, Frederick Merkle (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asbury Park |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 2007 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |