George Evelyn Hutchinson, interviewed December 7, 1984, discusses the Institute of Ecology, including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, its structural and funding challenges, and its demise. Hutchinson was a British ecologist, sometimes described as the 'father of modern ecology' as he is known as one of the first people to combine ecology with mathematics. Although Hutchinson was born in Cambridge, England in 1903, and earned his degree in Zoology from Cambridge University, choosing not to earn a doctorate (of which he came to be proud of as he aged), he almost spent his entire professional life at Yale University, where he was Sterling Professor of Zoology. In 1949, Hutchinson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1950, to the National Academy of Sciences. He became and international expert on lakes and wrote the four-volume Treatise on Limnology in 1957.
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