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Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931We have 6 books for this author.
 David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. Jordan was also an early leader in the American Eugenics movement. BiographyBorn into a farm family of Gainesville, New York, he entered the newly-established Cornell University as an undergraduate in 1866, and received a master's degree in 1872; he was an instructor in botany at Cornell beginning in 1870. He then moved to Indianapolis and acquired an MD from Indiana Medical College (1875), after lecturing in 1874 on marine botany at the Anderson summer school of natural history at Penikese Island, Massachusetts, and on botany and ichthyology at the Harvard School of Geology in 1875. He earned Ph.D. from Butler University in 1878, taking up a professorship in science at Indiana University in 1879. From 1879 through 1881 he was a special agent of the United States census for the marine industries of the Pacific coast, and he also held appointments at various times with United States Fish Commission, beginning in 1877 and extending through 1891. He was appointed president of Indiana University on January 1, 1885, and then went to Stanford in 1891 to become its first president, later becoming its chancellor in 1913, in order to have more time available for his peace activities (a new trustee by the name of Herbert Hoover helped arrange this). Jordan retired in 1916. He was president of the California Academy of Sciences from 1896 to 1904 and after 1908. He was also president of the World Peace Foundation from 1910 to 1914 and chaired the World Peace Conference in 1915. Jordan was an extremely prolific writer, with 650 articles and books on ichthyology alone, and 1,400 other works. As of 1881, Jordan had already published about 250 papers on North American ichthyology, also the Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States. In 1910, David Starr Jordan, Stanford's first President, was asked by another professor how many students he knew by name. "Whenever I learn the name of a student," the renowned ichthyologist responded, "I forget the name of a fish." Jordan is somewhat notable in the fields of political science and international relations for his optimistic statements about the future of the world before the outbreak of World War I. According to the book Understanding International Conflicts by Joseph Nye, Jordan incorrectly predicted in 1910 that nations would not go to war in the future because it would cause too much damage to their economies. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. Monuments and memorials
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EponymyThe genera Jordania Starks, 1895, Davidijordania Popov, 1931, and Jordanella Goode & Bean, 1879 are named after him. Species named after him include:
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This biographical information was gathered from the David_Starr_Jordan page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksA Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.California and the Californians The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men Life's Enthusiasms The Philosophy of Despair The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches |
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