G. Evelyn Hutchinson

George Evelyn Hutchinson
Born	January 30, 1903(1903-01-30) Cambridge, England
Died	May 17, 1991 (aged 88) London, England
Residence	United States
Nationality	English, American (naturalized 1941)
Fields	Limnology, ecology
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Birth of American limnology
Notable awards	National Medal of Science (1991)
Notes Remembered for concept of the multi-dimentional niche

George Evelyn Hutchinson (born January 30, 1903, died May 17, 1991) was an Anglo-American zoologist known for his studies of freshwater lakes and considered the father of American limnology.

Born at Cambridge in England, Hutchinson was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After two years of lecturing at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, he joined the faculty at Yale University in 1928. He became a US citizen in 1941.

His illustrious career at Yale lasted for forty-three years. In 1949, Hutchinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1950 to the National Academy of Science. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991.

After his retirement, he spent much of his time in England, and he died in London on May 17, 1991.

[edit] Publications

Apart from many research papers, Hutchinson wrote -

Vol I Geography, Physics and Chemistry (1957)

Vol II Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton (1967)

Vol III Limnological Botany (1975)

Vol IV The Zoobenthos (1993)

The Enchanted Voyage (1962)
The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play (1965)
Introduction to Population Ecology (1978) and
The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist (Yale University Press, 1979)