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Philip Hershkovitz

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U.S. zoologist (1909-1997)

United StatesLived 1909 to 1997 · aged 87
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Philip Hershkovitz was an American mammalogist. Born in Pittsburgh, he attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and lived in South America collecting mammals. In 1947, he was appointed a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and he continued to work there until his death.

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circa 1962, FMNH archives and PH filescirca 1962, FMNH archives and PH files1987 Fieldiana Zoology, No: 39 (festschrift)1987 Fieldiana Zoology, No: 39 (festschrift)

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Philip Hershkovitz was an American mammalogist. Born in Pittsburgh, he attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and lived in South America collecting mammals. In 1947, he was appointed a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and he continued to work there until his death. He published much on the mammals of the Neotropics, particularly primates and rodents, and described almost 70 new species and subspecies of mammals. About a dozen species have been named after him.

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Lived 1909 to 1997 · aged 87
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