Charles Atwood Kofoid

Charles Atwood Kofoid
Born(1865-10-11)October 11, 1865
Granville, Illinois
DiedMay 30, 1947(1947-05-30) (aged 81)
Berkeley, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Known forMarine biology
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
Notable studentsS. F. Light, Harold Kirby

Charles Atwood Kofoid (11 October 1865 – 30 May 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis.

Kofoid also wrote a volume on the biological stations of Europe.[1]

Kofoid's ex-libris, as seen in the Biodiversity Heritage Library[2]

In 1920, Kofoid and US zoologist Olive Swezy (1873-1968),[3] published Pavillardia Kof. & Swezy 1920 (a genus of dinoflagellates) in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. pages 323-324. It was named in honour of Jules Pavillard.[4]

In 1921, Kofoid and Olive Swezy, wrote a book about unarmored dinoflagellates in La Jolla, California, in which they described a new genus called Torodinium (with Torodinium robustum and the type species Torodinium teredo).[5] They also published Gyrodinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the order Gymnodiniales in 'Memoirs of the University of California'. vol.5.[6]

In 1929, botanist Pavillard first described Kofoidinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the family Kofoidiniaceae.[7]

Kofoid was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913,[8] the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922,[9] and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.[10]

  1. ^ Kofoid, C. A. (1910). The Biological Stations of Europe. US Bureau of Education.
  2. ^ Duncan, P. Martin; Duncan, P. Martin (1882). Infusoria. [s.l.]{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Olive Swezy, US zoologist - Stock Image - C037/2025". Science Photo Library. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ Kofoid, C.A. and Swezy, O. 1921: The free-living unarmored dinoflagellate. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA
  6. ^ "Gyrodinium Kofoid & Swezy, 1921". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Kofoidinium Pavillard, 1929 :: Algaebase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Charles Atwood Kofoid". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  9. ^ "Charles A. Kofoid". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  10. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-08-22.