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Curator’s Choice
G. Evelyn Hutchinson:
The “Father”
of American Ecology
CLOSE WINDOWCollecting insects at
Cherryhinton Chalk Pits,
Cambridgeshire, England, 1920.
Yale University Archives
| George Evelyn Hutchinson became an instructor at Yale in 1928, and retired in 1971 as Sterling Professor of Zoology. He was entirely educated at Cambridge University in his native England, but credits his father, a mineralogist, and uncle, a zoologist, for much of his early interest in natural history. “It would be a mistake to view Evelyn Hutchinson as just a natural scientist, for his curiosity and knowledge seemed to span about every field of human inquiry.… Of Evelyn, it was possible to ask about almost everything and get a fascinating answer.…” — Thomas E. Lovejoy |