George Adelbert "Bart" Bartholomew (June 1, 1919 – October 2, 2006) was an American biologist. He was born in

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and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the

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. During the

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he served as a physicist in the

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. He earned his

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, but was associated during the rest of his long career, until his retirement in 1989, with the

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in 1981 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Bartholomew was the inaugural (1993) recipient of the

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’s

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, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research. Bartholomew is also recognized for the large number of prolific scientists that trained under his supervision. Specifically, 39 Ph.D. students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and one Master’s student were trained in his lab at UCLA. These students went on to train their own students, and as of 2005 his lineage spanned a maximum of seven generations and included nearly 1,200 individuals. Bartholomew is so well respected among contemporary biologists that it is a source of pride to claim to be in the "Bartholomew Tree", which is to be an academic descendant of Bartholomew.

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Academic Genealogy of George BartholomewWilliam R. Dawson, "George A. Bartholomew", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2011)
1919 births 2006 deaths American ornithologists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard University alumni People from Independence, Missouri University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American zoologists {{US-ornithologist-stub