Olga Hartman | |
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 Aboard the Velero III c. 1940 | |
| Born | May 17, 1900 Waterloo, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 1974 (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Invertebrate zoology Polychaetology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Polychaetous annelids of the littoral zone of California (1936) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. F. Light |
Olga Hartman (May 17, 1900 – January 5, 1974) was an American invertebrate zoologist and polychaetologist. She was a student of S. F. Light at the University of California, Berkeley, and later a staff researcher at the Allan Hancock Foundation and professor of biology at the University of Southern California. Active from the 1930s to the 1970s, Hartman specialized in Polychaeta, a class of marine annelid worms, and was known for her work as a cataloger and as a polychaete systematist. She is considered one of the top three most prolific authors in her field, having described 473 polychaete species during her lifetime.