Llano, George A. 1911-2003
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Name (Latin)
Llano, George A. 1911-2003
Other forms of name
Perez y Llano, Jorge Alberto Cecilio, 1911-2003
nnaa Llano, George Albert, 1911-
Date of birth
1911-11-22
Date of death
2003-02-09
Field of activity
Biology
Botany
International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958
Lichenology
Shark attacks
Occupation
Biologists
Botanists
Lichenologists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- finding aid: George A. Llano collection, circa 1948 (111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948; born Jorge Alberto Cecilio Perez y Llano in Havana, Cuba on November 22, 1911. He attended Cornell University, where he received a B. S. in 1935. Llano received an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College in New York in 1939. He began his Ph.D. work at Harvard University but was interrupted by world War II. After the war Llano continued his Ph.D. work at Vaxtbiologiska Institut in Uppsala, Sweden and finished his Ph.D. in botany at Washington University in St. Louis in 1949, while also working in Alaska collecting lichens with his mentor, Per Scholander ( (Alaska's Digital Archives WWW site via Google, Apr. 29, 2015:) )
- acting Chief Scientist and Program Manager of Polar Biology and Medicine in the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation; specialist in lichenology, polar vegetation, and shark attack survival techniques; employed as Associate Curator of Cryptogams, Smithsonian Institution, 1948-1950; Research and Editorial Specialist, Air University, U.S. Air Force, 1950-1956; biologist, U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year in Antarctica, 1957-1958; and Science Specialist (Biology), Science and Technology Division, Library of Congress, 1960-1961; served as secretary and member of the Panel on Biological and Medical Sciences, Committee on Polar Research, National Academy of Sciences; he conducted field studies in Arctic Alaska and the Aleutians, northern Scandinavia, Antarctica, and Panama ( (George A. Llano papers, 1946-1961:) )
- Tribute to George Albert Llano (b. 1910, Havana; died aboard the Antarctic tour ship Akademic loffe on February 9, 2003, at the age of 93; biologist, lichenologist and program manager for Biological and Medical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation's office of Polar Programs from 1960-1977 ( (New Zealand Antarctic Society WWW site, viewed Apr. 29, 2015:) )
- U.S. Department of Veterans affairs BIRLS death file, 1850-2010, via Ancestry.com search, Apr. 30, 2015(George Llano; b. Nov. 22, 1911; d. Feb. 10, 2003)
- George Albert Llano; also identified as Jorge Alberto Cecilio Pérez y Llano; b. November 22, 1911; d. February 9, 2003; professor, botanist, lichenologist ( (Wikipedia.org, Apr. 29, 2015) )
- Antarctic terrestrial biology, 1972:t.p. (George A. Llano)
- OCLC, June 22, 2006(hdg.: Llano, George Albert, 1911-; usage: George A. Llano)
- George A. Llano collection, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, via WWW, July 25, 2011:(b. Nov. 22, 1911; d. Feb. 9, 2003)