Chamberlin, Ralph V., Ph.D.

Dr Chamberlin was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1879. Dr Chamberlain received his B.S. degree from the University of Utah in 1898 and his Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell in 1905. Dr. Chamberlin taught high school from 1898 to 1902 and was the Goldwin Smith Fellow in Zoology at Cornell from 1902-1904. Dr Chamberlin came to the University as Assistant Professor of Natural History (1904) and Professor of Biology (1908). Dr Chamberlin was instrumental in the organization of the two-year school of medical school and was Dean from 1905-1907. Dr Chamberlin was Professor of Zoology at Brigham Young University from 1908-1911. Dr Chamberlin was Harrison Fellow and Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1911-1913. Dr Chamberlin was Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1913-1926. Dr Chamberlin returned to the University in 1926 as Professor of Zoology and Head of the Division of Biology until his retirement from active teaching in 1948 as Professor Emeritus. Dr Chamberlin received an honorary Sc.D. from the University of Utah in 1942. Dr Chamberlin authored the book, The University of Utah: The First Hundred Years, published in 1960. Dr Chamberlin died in 1967.