Albert William Christian Theodore Herre | |
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Born | Toledo, Ohio, U.S. | September 16, 1868
Died | January 16, 1962 Santa Cruz, California, U.S. | (aged 93)
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Known for | description of many new Philippine fish species |
Scientific career | |
Fields | ichthyology, lichenology, ecology |
Institutions | |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Herre |
Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (September 16, 1868 – January 16, 1962) was an American ichthyologist and lichenologist.[1] Herre was born in 1868 in Toledo, Ohio. He was an alumnus of Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in botany in 1903. Herre also received a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford, both in ichthyology.[2] He died in Santa Cruz, California in 1962.[3]