Myvanwy M. Dick
Myvanwy Millar Dick | |
|---|---|
| Born | Myvanwy Millar 1910 |
| Died | 1993 (aged 82–83) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ichthyology |
| Institutions | Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University |
Myvanwy Millar Dick (1910 – March 1993) was a British-born American zoologist and curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where she collaborated with Thomas Barbour, Henry Bryant Bigelow, and Alfred Romer.[1]
Born outside Birmingham, England, and of Welsh descent, Myvanwy Millar moved to the United States in 1930, where she trained as an artist and married a tree surgeon, George M. Dick, in 1939. In 1946, she joined the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology as an art assistant, rising through the ranks to become a research assistant, laboratory assistant, curatorial assistant, and curator before retiring in 1976.[1][2]
Dick specialized in ichthyology (the study of fish) and belonged to the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists for more than 40 years. In 1990, she established the Myvanwy Dick Award for most innovative student paper in ichthyology.[1][2] Throughout her career, she assisted scientific researchers, maintained collections of specimens, and published several scientific papers, including a study of bony fishes and a comprehensive survey of the Thayer Expedition.[3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hartel, Karsten E.; Musick, John A. (1993). "Myvanwy Millar Dick, 1910-1993". Copeia. 1993 (4): 1208–1209. ISBN 978-0-912532-85-1 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b Sears, Mary. "Collections Curators: Bryant, Deichmann, Lawrence and Dick". Research Guides: Women of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). Harvard Library. Archived from the original on 2025-06-11. Retrieved 2025-06-11.
- ^ Bigelow, Henry B.; Cohen, Daniel M.; Dick, Myvanwy M.; Gibbs, Robert H.; Grey, Marion; Morrow, James E.; Schultz, Leonard P.; Walters, Vladimir (2018) [1964]. Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Isospondyli and Giganturoidei: Part 4. Yale University Press. ISBN 9781933789149.
- ^ Dick, Myvanwy M. (1972). "A Review of the Fishes of the Family Bathyclupeidae" (PDF). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India. 14 (2): 539–544. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-08-14.
- ^ Dick, M. M. (1977). "Stations of the Thayer Expedition to Brazil 1865–1866". Breviora. 444: 1–37 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- 1910 births
- 1993 deaths
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 20th-century American zoologists
- American ichthyologists
- American women marine biologists
- American women academics
- American women zoologists
- British emigrants to the United States
- Harvard University staff
- Scientists from Birmingham, West Midlands
- Scientists from Massachusetts
- Women ichthyologists