Olga Hartman

Olga Hartman
Aboard the Velero III c. 1940
Born(1900-05-17)May 17, 1900
DiedJanuary 5, 1974(1974-01-05) (aged 73)
Education
Scientific career
FieldsInvertebrate zoology
Polychaetology
Institutions
ThesisPolychaetous annelids of the littoral zone of California (1936)
Doctoral advisorS. 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.