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Richard Van Gelder was born on 17 December, 1928 in U.S., is an American mammologist (1928–1994). Discover Richard Van Gelder's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 17 December, 1928
Birthday 17 December
Birthplace U.S.
Date of death 23 February, 1994
Died Place U.S.
Nationality United States

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1928

Richard George Van Gelder (December 17, 1928 – February 23, 1994) was an American mammalogist who served as the Curator of Mammalogy for the American Museum of Natural History in New York for more than twenty-five years.

1957

In 1957, while on the Puritan Expedition to the Baja Peninsula, he discovered a new species of vesper bat commonly known as Van Gelder's Bat.

His later research included the study of the nyala in Mozambique.

1968

He was a President of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1968 to 1970.

1969

Among his accomplishments at the Museum of Natural History was the 1969 redesign of the Hall of Ocean Life featuring the blue whale which still hangs in the center of the hall.

Among his colleagues in the Mammal Department at the AMNH were Karl Koopman, Marie A. Lawrence, Guy Musser, and Sydney Anderson.

1980

He also served on the New Jersey Endangered and Non-Game Species Council in the 1980s.

1994

He was the author of a number of mammalogy books including Biology of Mammals and Mammals of the National Parks as well as a large range of mammal related children's books such as Bats, Animals in Winter, The Professor and the Mysterious Box, The Professor and the Vanishing Flags, Monkeys and Apes, and Whose Nose Is This? He died in 1994 of acute monocytic leukemia.