Philip Hershkovitz
American zoologist
Died when: 87 years 126 days (1048 months)Star Sign: Libra
Philip Hershkovitz (12 October 1909 – 15 February 1997) 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 has 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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